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From: Charles Swiger <cswiger@mac.com>
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On Jan 31, 2005, at 5:58 PM, Kirill Ponomarew wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 31, 2005 at 02:39:16PM -0800, Doug Barton wrote:
>> I can't help but think that the majority of users try to build their 
>> own
>> index because they don't know that there is a better alternative. What
>> would y'all think of the following patch?
[ ...patch deleted... ]
> Maybe it's even better to mention 'make fetchindex' instead of
> 'fetchindex target', but on the whole I like this idea.

Agreed, on both counts.

-- 
-Chuck