Re: How a packaging system works

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Subject: Re: How a packaging system works
From: Joel Klecker <jk@espy.org>
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1998 02:00:46 -0700
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References: <[🔎] m3pveqlbxp.fsf@zen.binary.net.au> (David Maslen <david@binary.net.au>'s message of 28 Jul 1998 16:36:02 +1000)

At 23:58 -0700 1998-07-27, Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote:
>You just described the FreeBSD "port" system. See <http://www.freebsd.org/
>handbook/handbook23.html#25>. If you don't mind compiling, it's a nice
>system.

Last I checked, that system was rather i386-centric, the NetBSD "packages"
system appears to handle multi-architecture stuff better.
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