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From: Tomas Szepe <szepe@pinerecords.com>
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Subject: Re: [RFC] make localconfig
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> 	This is supposed to be a first step into a new direction where
> 	we no  longer copy vendor packages  from the vendor  CD to the
> 	system in the first place, but rather compile new packages for
> 	each  system, hoping  that  somewhen the  boxes  will be  fast
> 	enough  to handle  it  in  no time.  It's  basically a  binary
> 	distribution -> source distribution transition.

You might also like to take a look at Gentoo Linux, which I hear does
precisely this, except with all the packages the user chooses to install.
(Hopefully I've not malformed the name of the distro too much.)

T.
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