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From: James FitzGibbon <james@nexis.net>
To: Satoshi Asami <asami@cs.berkeley.edu>
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On Thu, 5 Jun 1997, Satoshi Asami wrote:

> By the way, do people think I should add support for
> "pre-install-i386" sort of targets?  That would be require a little
> more hack but is doable.

Personally, I think that the main targets should be smart
enough to use defined variables rather than create an extra 10
or 12 targets per OS.

--
j.