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Re: gpm in standard or not [was: Re: interesting times installing 2.4.17 in Woody...]



On Sun, Feb 24, 2002 at 02:58:04PM +0100, Josip Rodin wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 24, 2002 at 08:56:49AM -0500, Daniel Burrows wrote:
> > > Anyway. If everybody is so inclined to deprecate gpm, please come up
> > > with a viable alternative before that, because I still want a copy&paste
> > > in the console. :)
> >   "apt-get install gpm".
> Viable alternative _in_ _standard_. I.e. no removed functionality.

Why would you think we can't remove functionality? We've already dropped
tetex and emacs from standard this time round.

Cheers,
aj

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