On Tue, Oct 26, 1999 at 09:24:47PM -0400, Clint Adams wrote: > > Why bother porting non-base packages, since FreeBSD has linux > > emulation mode? > > What? Why emulate when you can compile natively?
[I'm about 3 weeks late, but anyway...] Well, Debian diskspace is already blowing out (for the archive, not for installed systems). If the emulation works just as well, we can save a lot of time by not recompiling. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3SB. CCs of replies on mailing lists are welcome.