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Subject: Re: 2.2.6 CD-ROM : Package dependencies up the creek ? 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 16 Jun 1998 01:38:41 EDT."
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Date: Tue, 16 Jun 1998 01:00:25 -0700
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From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
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> in sysinstall.  Why not put a pointer to pkg_manage in the default
> /etc/motd, or something like that?  Pkg_manage even *looks* like
> sysinstall.

What's pkg_manage?

> I still maintain that package installation is orthogonal to installation
> and belongs elsewhere -- namely, in system *configuration*, which can be
> done once the OS is safely installed.  As evidence, I submit the spate

I await the details and first implementation of your design, oh
maintaining one. :)

- Jordan

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