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Date:      Thu, 14 Aug 1997 18:13:56 +0200
From:      Wolfram Schneider <wosch@de.freebsd.org>
To:        John Fieber <jfieber@indiana.edu>
Cc:        Peter Korsten <peter@grendel.IAEhv.nl>, www@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Packages next to ports?
Message-ID:  <19970814181356.00430@blues.physik.rwth-aachen.de>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.970811224413.29733G-100000@fallout.campusview.indiana.edu>; from John Fieber on Mon, Aug 11, 1997 at 10:50:06PM -0500
References:  <19970811002405.18113@grendel.IAEhv.nl> <Pine.BSF.3.96.970811224413.29733G-100000@fallout.campusview.indiana.edu>

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> On Mon, 11 Aug 1997, Peter Korsten wrote:
> > I've been wondering for some time, why the packeges (if available)
> > arent listed alongside the ports. Personally, I find packeges more
> > elegant (a lot like the tarballs for Irix systems).
> > 
> > I can do a search and find the package I want, but not with the
> > category list.

Two different persons wrote two different perl scripts (portindex
and ports.cgi). The scripts does not share any bytes of code ;-/ 
Thats all.

Wolfram



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