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Subject: Re: BSD Installer as a replacement for sysinstall?
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Brian Candler wrote:

>Jordan Hubbard wrote an article about these sorts of issues a long
>while back. It took me a while to find it, but here it is:
>http://people.freebsd.org/~jkh/package-and-install.txt
>Five years on, and it reads as if it were written yesterday.
>  
>
Unfortunatly, that's partially because we're still using the same 
installer today that we were using five years ago.