Re: FreeBSD to use a packaging system close to Debian?

[Tyson Dowd <trd@cs.mu.OZ.AU>]

On 03-Nov-1998, Richard Braakman <dark@xs4all.nl> wrote:
> Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote:
> > I suggested that they use dpkg itself but they refuse because it's GNU. NIH 
> > striked again.
> 
> Yeah.  How unreasonable of them to worry so much about licensing issues ;-)

But it's not like they refuse to use gcc because it's GNU. 

I guess their idealism depends on their pragmatism.

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