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On Wednesday, September 17, 2003, at 04:27  pm, Paul Richards wrote:
> I was thinking of adding an option to install so it registers the file
> in a plist rather than actually doing the install. A seperate "make
> plist" target could then be used as a helper target to automate the
> generation of plists.

I think the NetBSD guys have already done something like this.  Luke 
Mewburn (IIRC) mentioned this in his 'cross building' talk at BSDCon.

N