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Date: Fri, 26 Mar 2010 10:00:59 -0700
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From: ron minnich <rminnich@gmail.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
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On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 9:55 AM, erik quanstrom
<quanstro@labs.coraid.com> wrote:
>> bind -a $home/bin/rc =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0/bin
> [...]
>>
>> (I use this for contrib packages as well, after getting burned a few
>> times with contrib stuff breaking builds in /sys/src. =A0Rather than
>> use the package tool I copy the sources into $home/src and build as
>> above. =A0The extra work is minimal.)
>
> how is this less work than fixing or removing
> broken packages? =A0that problem needs to be
> dealt with one way or the other.

Well, I've done both and this is less work. So I just measured the two
quantities. :-)

ron