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Date:      Mon, 01 Jan 1996 23:26:47 -0800
From:      "Amancio Hasty Jr." <hasty@rah.star-gate.com>
To:        Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
Cc:        bora@wireless.stanford.edu (Bora Akyol), imp@village.org, hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: X for install (was: Re: syscons driver) 
Message-ID:  <199601020726.XAA04703@rah.star-gate.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 02 Jan 1996 16:53:27 %2B1030." <199601020623.QAA03813@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> 

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>>> Michael Smith said:
 > Bora Akyol stands accused of saying:
 > > 
 > > Well
 > > Just for information the Linux Plug and Play version and Red Hat Release 
 > > both have Tk/Tcl based X installations. (I think the red hat can be 
 > > python based).
 > 
 > The Redhat installation tools are _awful_ from the code perspective. 
 > (I had a look at them a while back with the intention of seeing if we could
 > learn anything from them or their package format).
 > 
 > Warner is on the right track though, what we need is an installation process
 > that is independant of the user interface.

Maybe . I would focus on describing a syntax and grammar for the installation
procedure then offered different front-ends .

	Amancio






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