Subject: Re: Third party source [was re: airport codes.]
To: None <tech-misc@netbsd.org>
From: Greg A. Woods <woods@weird.com>
List: tech-misc
Date: 10/25/2000 02:47:42
[ On Sunday, October 22, 2000 at 13:04:55 (-0400), John Hawkinson wrote: ]
> Subject: Re: Third party source [was re: airport codes.]
>
> But not all users are developers (lowercase 'd'), by a long shot, and
> including developer-only tools that developers can easily get from pkgsrc
> is hardly compelling.
That way lies total madness. The proof is available in any proprietary
OS distribution I've ever worked with.
Any OS available in source should be 100% totally self-hosting (though
cross-build support is of course a highly desirable attribute too!).
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Greg A. Woods
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