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Subject: Re: Removal of sysinstall from HEAD and lack of a post-install
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Hi,

Why not just list the things that sysinstall did that people like, and
extract out / reimplement those bits?

Noone's going to complain if you write say, a stand-alone package
browser, or a stand-alone gui upgrade tool, or stand-alone
configuration program, etc.



Adrian