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Subject: Re: My FreeBSD Wish List... 
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Date: Mon, 08 Sep 1997 22:40:38 -0700
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From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
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> > Well, please do also bear in mind that the entire package installer is
> > soon to be replaced by a completely from-scratch effort.  The existing
> > package tools, like the existing system installation tools, are
> > *prototypes* which lived about 2 years longer than intended. ;-)
> 
> cool--who's working on this?  is there a url with more info?

Mike Smith, Ada T Lim (as soon as she releases a working libzip :-)
and myself and no, there's no URL.  You'll just have to wait for the
first commits to hit -current before knowing more about this. ;-)

					Jordan