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Bug#85982: policy ch7 grammar issues



On Wed, Feb 14, 2001 at 09:30:34PM +0000, Mark Baker wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 14, 2001 at 11:56:03AM -0800, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote:
> 
> > -- quote
> > saying that they require certain binary packages being installed
> > -- end quote
> > I think this should read 'having been installed'.  Present, future and past
> > are being blurred in that sentence.
> 
> How about '...that certain binary packages are installed'?

No: `saying that they require certain binary packages to be installed...'

   Julian

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