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From: Peter da Silva <peter@bonkers.taronga.com>
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Subject: Re: install compressed binary patch
To: phk@ref.tfs.com (Poul-Henning Kamp)
Date: Tue, 14 Mar 1995 05:11:00 -0600 (CST)
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In-Reply-To: <199503140124.RAA01364@ref.tfs.com> from "Poul-Henning Kamp" at Mar 13, 95 05:24:32 pm
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>>The `-z' would be useful perhaps for XFree86 where the site.def(?) file allows
>>one to specify the install program and install flags (if i recall correctly).
>>Then, you can automatically have X built with compressed binaries.

Probably be a good idea *not* to install "xterm" and a few other programs
that are likely to have multiple copies running compressed. Are the rules
clever enough to allow that?