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   <h3><font color=#0000e0>OpenBSD Porting Policy</font></h3>    <h3><font color=#0000e0>OpenBSD Porting Policy</font></h3>
   <ul>    <ul>
    <li>OpenBSD does NOT use /usr/local/etc/rc.d.<br>     <li>OpenBSD does NOT use /usr/local/etc/rc.d.<br>
        <code>/usr/local</code> is often NFS mounted; shared between         <code>/usr/local</code> is often shared between several machines
        machines in a cluster.  For this reason per machine configuration                   thanks to NFS.  For this reason, configuration files that are specific
        files are places in <code>/etc</code>.                   to a given machine can't be stored under <code>/usr/local</code>,
                    <code>/etc</code> is the central repository for per machine
                    configuration files.  Moreover, OpenBSD policy is to never update
                    files under <code>/etc</code> automatically.  Ports that need some
                    specific boot setup should advise the administrator about what to do
                    instead of blindly installing files.
    <li>OpenBSD does NOT compress man pages.     <li>OpenBSD does NOT compress man pages.
    <li>OpenBSD does NOT require <code>-lcrypt</code>.<br>     <li>OpenBSD does NOT require <code>-lcrypt</code>.<br>
        DES encryption is part of the standard <code>libc</code>.         DES encryption is part of the standard <code>libc</code>.
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