Path: utzoo!mnetor!geac!yunexus!davecb
From: davecb@yunexus.YorkU.CA (David Collier-Brown)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: Installation woes (Re: Passing on unwanted groups)
Message-ID: <14325@yunexus.YorkU.CA>
Date: 26 Aug 90 00:54:39 GMT
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urlichs@smurf.sub.org (Matthias Urlichs) writes:
| Just watch someone install first perl and then C News.

| People tend to look at me somewhat incredulously at these times.
| Larrys config stuff finds out all about the machine you don't want to know
| anyway, and C news asks you. Granted that configure doesn't work everywhere,
| but in the majority of standard cases it's great.

  Alas, the common case isn't the general case.  **However**, if the common
case is common enough, mabe its worthwhile to add config to the "contributed
software" part of the distribution, assuming circumstances permit.

--dave (of course, it might then become infinitely large...) c-b
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