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by wglb 4180 days ago
Note that the package system used by OpenBSD is explicitly borrowed from FreeBSD.
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brynet 4180 days ago
That's not true. OpenBSD's package system was rewritten by Marc Espie many years ago in perl, the utility names are inherited from FreeBSD, but are now otherwise unrelated.
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wglb 4179 days ago
Ah, I misquoted. On the page http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq15.html, they point out that the ports tree concept was borrowed from FreeBSD.
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