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



And thus spake Tyson Dowd, on Wed, Nov 04, 1998 at 02:24:48AM +1100:
> 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.

Actually, I've been told that they've discussed moving to another C
compiler.

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