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- From: pmacdona@sanjuan (Peter MacDonald)
- Subject: Re: SLS: now available (for testers)
- Message-ID: <1992Aug17.171851.1247@sol.UVic.CA>
- Sender: news@sol.UVic.CA
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- Organization: University of Victoria, Victoria B.C. CANADA
- References: <fortony.714016874@murphy> <1992Aug17.042529.17518@sol.UVic.CA> <1992Aug17.081945.18039@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu>
- Date: Mon, 17 Aug 92 17:18:51 GMT
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- In article <1992Aug17.081945.18039@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu> jliddle@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu (Jean Liddle) writes:
- >In article <1992Aug17.042529.17518@sol.UVic.CA> pmacdona@sanjuan (Peter MacDonald) writes:
- >>I am going to kick myself for contributing to perpetuating this farce,
- >>but I am weak with amazement.
- >>
- >
- >Me sentiments exactly. I've restrained myself to only one post on this
- >subject, but ...
- >>
- >>Anyways, for now, distribution via Softlanding is suspended, because
- >>it (you) is getting in the way of developing and testing SLS, which
- >>is after all my primary goal. And I suggest that in future you
- >
- >This is indeed unfortunate. Please reconsider. I will lose internet
-
- I have already reconsidered, and now find that I let the vocal minority
- (who's speed of response was stunning) hold sway where it should not.
- Therefore, Softlanding will distribute SLS, as before.
-
- To that end, I would urge recompiling with 2.2.2d of large packages
- like Gdb and groff, using -jump. If it works as expected, then it will
- be possible to distribute updates that are just the new libs, and the
- new kernels. It would also be nice to consolidate the fonts from
- the different packages like X11 and TeX.
-