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From: Kris Kennaway <kris@citusc.usc.edu>
To: "Matthew N. Dodd" <winter@jurai.net>
Cc: Neil Blakey-Milner <nbm@mithrandr.moria.org>,
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On Thu, Oct 12, 2000 at 01:55:55AM -0400, Matthew N. Dodd wrote:

> Is there any reason all of this security stuff can't be relegated to a
> package?  Seems like it would be much better than constantly hacking on
> sysinstall and the ability to have interactive packages does exist I
> believe.

Interactive packages work poorly with sysinstall - they're displayed
on another vty, and the user has no indication of this.

It's becoming more and more of a problem as packages gain interactive
security warnings/installation confirmations/license agreements/etc,
for example. :-(

Kris


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