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On Thu, 2004-09-02 at 14:17, Brooks Davis wrote:

> you also create a symlink farm and point LOCALBASE to it.  You might
> actually consider using NetBSD's pkgsrc.  It has a lot less packages,

That's fine, I'll look into that.

Thanks (to Branden and others too)!

Mike