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From: osyjm@cs.montana.edu (Jaye Mathisen)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.apps
Subject: Re: Precompiled packages [was Re: I _compiled_ olvwm on 0.9, anyone else?]
Date: 12 Sep 1993 00:42:56 GMT
Organization: Computer Science, MSU, Bozeman MT, 59717
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Message-ID: <26trag$91p@pdq.coe.montana.edu>
References: <n62274.746985442@pbhrzx.uni-paderborn.de> <hastyCCx05A.AnJ@netcom.com> <JKH.93Sep7011105@whisker.lotus.ie> <26gqciINN2nl@xs4all.hacktic.nl>
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In article <26gqciINN2nl@xs4all.hacktic.nl>, Cor <cor@hacktic.nl> wrote:
>jkh@whisker.lotus.ie (Jordan K. Hubbard) writes:
>id be happy to put it somewhere. (packages like inn1.4, nn6.4.18+mode_reader,
>gopherd,tayloruucp,some shells,elm,ircd,irc,ida-sendmail,archie,pgp2.3,pico,and lots more)

The catch here is that the stuff on freebsd should be in pkg format, which
can use the nice pkgtool stuff from Jordan.

As opposed to a free-for-all.  It needs structure.
-- 
 Jaye Mathisen, COE Systems Manager                (406) 994-4780
 410 Roberts Hall,Dept. of Computer Science
 Montana State University,Bozeman MT 59717	osyjm@cs.montana.edu