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Re: Why were all DJB's ports removed? No more qmail?

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Subject: Re: Why were all DJB's ports removed? No more qmail?
From: "D. J. Bernstein" <djb@cr.yp.to>
Date: 29 Aug 2001 18:18:06 -0000
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Nick Holland writes:
> You have repeatedly, on your dns@ list, advised people to just
> download the source from your sites and install it by your directions
> (which ARE rather straight forward and trivial), not use ports, RPMs,
> etc.

False. Here's what actually happened:

   * Someone had trouble with the FreeBSD port of daemontools.
   * I explained that the port didn't work correctly.
   * I recommended following the official installation instructions.
   * I recommended complaining to the port author.

This does not mean that I have a problem with ports. It means that I
have a problem with _broken_ ports.

---Dan

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