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From: Albert D. Cahalan
Date: Tue, 27 Jan 1998 00:00

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Rajappa Iyer <rsi@lucent.com> writes:
> stephen farrell <sfarrell+usenet@farrell.org> writes:
>> rachel@virago.org.au (Rachel Polanskis) writes:

>>> I will be severely disappointed if Netscape gets totally 
>>> assimilated by the Linux community, given their penchant for 
>>> completely reinventing traditional UNIX ways of doing things, 
>>> at the expense of portability.
>> 
>> I have a lot of gripes with linux but this isn't one of them.  Could
>> you please give an example?  (I have built with almost zero
>> portability problems (well... the "top" programs don't work but what
>> do you want??) kde, gnome, gimp and other new linux programs on
>> my freebsd box).  (in fact I can run the binaries =)
> 
> rpm and dpkg.
> 
> Both could be implemented better and more portably with make and SVR4
> pkgadd/rm etc. See, for example, FreeBSD's ports mechanism.
> 
> 'nuff said.

Nope, get a clue. Both are portable applications with available
source code, even though it doesn't matter for system software.

Actually, I wonder how well "ports" would work with AT&T or GNU make.

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From: acahalan@saturn.cs.uml.edu (Albert D. Cahalan)
Subject: Re: Netscape releasing Source
Date: 1998/01/27
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