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Subject: Re: Removal of sysinstall from HEAD and lack of a post-install
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On 12/27/2011 22:08, Adrian Chadd wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Why not just list the things that sysinstall did that people like, and
> extract out / reimplement those bits?

That's sounds great. As soon as that's done, we can remove sysinstall
from the base. Until those things exist, removing it is premature.

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