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From: Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
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<<On Mon, 16 Jul 2001 03:19:32 -0700, Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> said:

> Personally, I think it's worth it to get rid of a GNU dependency in
> the base system, as well as reducing the overall amount of functional
> code duplication.

I don't, particularly since the two programs which use it are already
GNU software, so you haven't actually bought any additional freedom by
making such a change.

-GAWollman


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