Re: arch-specific packages and the new SCC requirements

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Subject: Re: arch-specific packages and the new SCC requirements
From: John Hasler <jhasler@debian.org>
Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2005 13:49:46 -0600
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In-reply-to: <[🔎] 87sm2vtnfm.fsf@becket.becket.net> (Thomas Bushnell's message of "16 Mar 2005 11:12:29 -0800")
References: <[🔎] 87sm2vtnfm.fsf@becket.becket.net>

Thomas Bushnell BSG writes:
> The Debian Hurd project has another category that should be excluded
> because they are kernel-specific.  (The current list on the web page is
> update, makedev, ld.so, modconf, modutils, netbase, pcmcia-cs, procps,
> ppp, pppconfig, setserial.

Pppconfig is not kernel-specific.  It's just a little Perl program that
edits some PPP files.  While I have never tried it, I see no reason why it
wouldn't work on Solaris or BSD.

I'm quite surprised that the Hurd still doesn't support PPP.
-- 
John Hasler

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