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In-Reply-To: <199509271906.PAA21561@healer.com> from "Coranth Gryphon" at Sep 27, 95 03:06:40 pm
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> No files are edited by packages. The packages/ports put control information
> into /etc/packages and /etc/init.d (for dependencies and scripts
> respectively).

What is /etc/packages in your model? If it's a file, well, we've just come
back to the original problem of having automated editing of a file. And
the other control files have still to be dealt with.

Much better to come up with a single scheme that has as much coverage as
possible.