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cc: Brandon Gillespie <brandon@roguetrader.com>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: My FreeBSD Wish List... 
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Date: Mon, 08 Sep 1997 17:59:46 -0700
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From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
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> I have thought a bit more about the RPM idea; you are right, the
> differences are not so much large... it is best to extend the existing
> code... i will post asap in the next days
> a table of differences between the two packaging system (pros and cons).

Well, please do also bear in mind that the entire package installer is
soon to be replaced by a completely from-scratch effort.  The existing
package tools, like the existing system installation tools, are
*prototypes* which lived about 2 years longer than intended. ;-)

					Jordan