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From: wollman@aix1.emba.uvm.edu (Garrett Wollman)
Subject: Re: [FreeBSD] Is a YP/NIS client available?
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In article <DERAADT.93Oct14152743@newt.fsa.ca>,
Theo de Raadt <deraadt@fsa.ca> wrote:

>Please just ignore Jordan. He hates my guts and just loves to argue;
>especially when it lets him assume things; ie. that a person who
>doesn't want to reinstall might not have the source tree online (many
>don't.)

Please ignore Theo, especially when he doesn't know what the Hell he's
talking about.  (Guido is on the FreeBSD-hackers list and definitely
does have the source on-line.)

>If this code is installed in a way that is even a touch different than
>the way it is installed in NetBSD, you'll be creating a binary
>compatibility problem. You'd better be damned sure you do it 100% the
>same way it's done in NetBSD.

AWWW... Poor BABY!  (It's people like Theo who give NetBSD a bad name
among our group.  Most of the other people are a lot more pleasant to
deal with.)

-GAWollman

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