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From: Tim Vanderhoek <tim@ppp1669.on.sympatico.ca>
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On Sun, 28 Sep 1997, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote:

> Unfortunately, I can't immediately think of any easy ways to implement
> this.

You could make 2 package CDs.  The packages which are dependencies
(ie.  they are depended on by some other package) would go on both
CDs, and the other packages depending on dependencies would go on
both discs.  This is a little wasteful, though...


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