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Re: comment and questions about the current 'comps' file for 5.2

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Derek Atkins)
Tue Feb 9 16:29:17 1999

To: amu@MIT.EDU (Aaron M. Ucko)
Cc: Salvatore Valente <svalente@MIT.EDU>, linux-dev@MIT.EDU
From: Derek Atkins <warlord@MIT.EDU>
Date: 09 Feb 1999 16:28:30 -0500
In-Reply-To: amu@MIT.EDU's message of 09 Feb 1999 16:18:22 -0500

amu@MIT.EDU (Aaron M. Ucko) writes:

> Similarly, we should add x3270 and xntp3 to appropriate components
> (Athena for both?) because they're normally installed on Athena
> workstations.

Done (added to the Athena component). Small problem: x3270 requires
the X packages, but that's probably ok.

> > Also, I was wondering if we should add a 'java' component to make it
> > easier to install kaffe.  Comments?  I was also wondering if we should
> > make sure that every package is in at least one component.  Currently
> > that is not the case.
> 
> Red Hat's java packages have been broken in the past; I'd rather we
> omit them in favor of the working install in the java locker.

Ok, I removed these components.

-derek

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