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Re: Slink not installable from CDs



Hi,
>>"Martin" == Martin Schulze <joey@finlandia.Infodrom.North.DE> writes:

 Martin> Enrique Zanardi wrote:
 >> Are we going to include "apt" in the base system? Its package
 >> ordering feature (and a few others) obsoletes the other methods, but
 >> currently apt doesn't work with mountable media. A "multi-cdrom-apt"
 >> method should be added quick.

 Martin> NO!  It does not _obsolete_ other methods.  It add new
 Martin> methods.  I would begin to hate somebody if it would replace
 Martin> e.g. the ftp method.  Apt and apt-get are some more
 Martin> alternatives.  They don't replace existing tools.

	Apt has a builtin ftp method. I coded the interim ftp method
 for APT (though my code is no longer used ;-(, and let me assure you,
 APT had all the functionality (if not more) of the method it
 replaced.

	I think APT does indeed make most of the other methods
 obsolete, and we should indeed be replacing the other methods with
 apt (no matter how mad it makes certain individuals ;-)


	manoj
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