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From: jim@EXPO.LCS.MIT.EDU (Jim Fulton)
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Subject: Re: An open Imake philosophy question
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Date: 20 Jul 89 11:40:56 GMT
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	Shouldn't there be an agreed-upon subset of Imake.tmpl that would
	allow software installations without the sources around? 

Tim Becker of Rochester posted patches to the R3 imake template to make it
work outside of the source tree.  It is definitely a reasonable thing to do;
I had implemented essentially the same thing literally an hour before Tim's
posting....