Re: autoup.sh & considerations on bail-out scripts

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Subject: Re: autoup.sh & considerations on bail-out scripts
From: James Troup <J.J.Troup@scm.brad.ac.uk>
Date: 12 Feb 1998 23:57:17 +0000
Message-id: <[🔎] dmm3ehonzqa.fsf@dcsun4.comp.brad.ac.uk>
In-reply-to: dark@xs4all.nl's message of "Fri, 13 Feb 1998 00:02:06 +0100 (CET)"
References: <[🔎] m0y37dv-001NHcC@night>

dark@xs4all.nl (Richard Braakman) writes:

> We could do away with pre-dependency entirely when all installation
> methods use package ordering.

No.  A pre-dependency requires the complete installation of the
pre-depended upon package (i.e. configuration as well as unpacking)
and package ordering doesn't help in that respect.

-- 
James

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