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To: Kris Kennaway <kris@citusc.usc.edu>
Cc: "Matthew N. Dodd" <winter@jurai.net>,
	Neil Blakey-Milner <nbm@mithrandr.moria.org>,
	Matt Dillon <dillon@earth.backplane.com>,
	Marius Bendiksen <mbendiks@eunet.no>, arch@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/etc inetd.conf 
In-Reply-To: Message from Kris Kennaway <kris@citusc.usc.edu> 
   of "Thu, 12 Oct 2000 02:27:45 PDT." <20001012022745.A10462@citusc17.usc.edu> 
Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2000 10:20:19 -0700
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From: Jordan Hubbard <jkh@winston.osd.bsdi.com>
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> Interactive packages work poorly with sysinstall - they're displayed
> on another vty, and the user has no indication of this.

It's even worse - because of the way the package is added (in "slave"
mode), pkg_add's stdin is a pipe at that point.  The user can't even
properly interact with it if they switch VTYs and notice it there. :(

- Jordan


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