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Date: Mon, 22 Feb 1999 20:43:57 -0500 (EST)
From: mcmahill@mtl.mit.edu
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On Mon, 22 Feb 1999, Hubert Feyrer wrote:
> 
> On Mon, 22 Feb 1999, David Brownlee wrote:
> > 	Is anyone interested in taking on the task of trying to get more
> > 	program homepages linking to the ftp.netbsd.org packages pages?
> 
> I'm doing this whenever I tell people that their program is now a part of
> the NetBSD Packages Collection.
> 

I too have started doing this for packages that I make/update.

BTW, the homepage for graphics/tgif also now has a NetBSD package link!

http://bourbon.cs.umd.edu:8001/tgif/current.html

I've found others pretty recptive to this, especially since when we send
NetBSD patches back to the authors, we sometimes help them fix real bugs
(assuming we do our patches in a other OS friendly way).

-Dan