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Re: portability as a goal for debian?



On Wed, 7 Mar 2001, Richard Braakman wrote:

> The GNU tools are generally excellent.  You're asking us to throw
> them out in exchange for... what?  Some mystical advantages of
> Portability?  The opportunity to have to deal with other people's bugs?

`` Don't write portable make files, use a portable make ''

Is still my favorite quote and very much directly applicable to this
argument.

I fully belive in that sentimate, btw.

Jason



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