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Date:      Wed, 10 Jul 2002 09:55:45 -0500
From:      Jonathan Lemon <jlemon@flugsvamp.com>
To:        Jordan K Hubbard <jkh@queasyweasel.com>
Cc:        Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com>, Archie Cobbs <archie@dellroad.org>, Dan Moschuk <dan@FreeBSD.ORG>, Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org>, Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com>, arch@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Package system flaws?
Message-ID:  <20020710095545.C65393@prism.flugsvamp.com>
In-Reply-To: <FFFB5387-93BA-11D6-AACD-0003938C7B7E@queasyweasel.com>
References:  <20020710033154.GD8625@dan.emsphone.com> <FFFB5387-93BA-11D6-AACD-0003938C7B7E@queasyweasel.com>

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On Tue, Jul 09, 2002 at 09:10:42PM -0700, Jordan K Hubbard wrote:
> We've already seen considerable debate over random access capabilities 
> and being able to get at the "dictionary" portion of a package either by 
> sticking it at the front or putting it in another file, so I won't go 
> into that all over again, but I will bring up something that nobody 
> seems to have touched on yet:  Fat packages.

Why does this remind me of the pain I had to go through where I had
to download a .pkg to my netcom account, and write my own 'thinner'
program to strip out the unwanted architecture cruft before actually
downloading the new .pkg over a 9600b link to my NeXTSTEP/i386 machine?
-- 
Jonathan

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