On Fri, May 01, 1998 at 11:33:55AM -0400, Daniel Martin at cush wrote: > I think someone already proposed this idea, and it was immediately > ignored, so I'm going to suggest it again: I didn't ignore it. > What about a pine-installer package? > > This would be similar to the netscape3 and netscape4 packages of old - > the user would be asked in the preinst to put the pine .orig.tar.gz, > the .diff.gz and the .dsc files into /tmp (or $TMPDIR); if those files > weren't there the preinst would bomb out, aborting installation. (the > documentation displayed in dselect would have to mention this too). Just be sure to tell the user where to get these things. netscape4 didn't tell you what version/filename to get or even where from. Granted, ftp*.netscape.com is a no-brainer, but. =>
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