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Date:      Tue, 2 Jan 1996 06:34:09 -0500 (EST)
From:      "Jonathan M. Bresler" <jmb@freebsd.org>
To:        Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
Cc:        "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>, hasty@rah.star-gate.com, msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, bora@wireless.stanford.edu, imp@village.org, hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: X for install (was: Re: syscons driver)
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.91.960102063235.1093F-100000@Aspen.Woc.Atinc.COM>
In-Reply-To: <199601020812.SAA04044@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au>

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On Tue, 2 Jan 1996, Michael Smith wrote:

> At the end of asking all the questions that it asks, the installer
> should be able to dump its entire internal state in a more-or-less
> human-readable form.  It should also be able to reingest this form and
> proceed from there; this would allow for 'template installations', which
> would cover a lot of, say, 'Joe on the net's issues. 8)

	sounds like the configure script from perl-4.036.  asks a bunch 
of questions, searches out information, does some tiny compilies.  then 
lets the user edit a file containing all the data.

	finally the build process begins

Jonathan M. Bresler        FreeBSD Postmaster         jmb@FreeBSD.ORG
play go. ride bike. hack FreeBSD.--ah the good life 
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