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From: Mark Valentine <mark@thuvia.demon.co.uk>
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In-Reply-To: Cyrille Lefevre's message of Jul 11,  2:51am
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To: Cyrille Lefevre <cyrille.lefevre@laposte.net>
Subject: Re: Package system flaws?
Cc: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org>,
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> From: Cyrille Lefevre <cyrille.lefevre@laposte.net>
> Date: Thu 11 Jul, 2002
> Subject: Re: Package system flaws?

> > IMHO, it would be better to provide each sub-package as it's own rather
> > to put them all in a single archive. so, you have more granularity on
> > what to download. if I just want tar-core and tar-man, I don't have to
> > fill my disk w/ tar-doc, etc.

My examples did show the parts stored seperately, but mentioned bindling
them in a single archive as an option.

		Cheers,

		Mark.

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