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-* BUG
-
-emacs with xemacs causes pbs 'cuz same binaries.
-
-List of packages not to autoinstall:
-- psacct
-- the one containing netscape (just a wrapper)
-
-
-ALL BELOW IS (was MAYBE, is COMPLETELY) OBSOLETE
-
-
-The idea is to auto-install rpms on demand, when needed. For this, every
-possible binaries that could exist (eg: /usr/bin/gimp, apropos shouldn't that be
-/usr/X11R6/bin?) is created as a symlink to a script for installing the needed
-packages. Not every package should be auto-installable.
-
-For the moment, it is very tied to a distribution. The package i've done is for
-the mandrake-5.3, using another distribution could result in???
-The package is auto-generated given the different packages which will be
-auto-installable.
-
-Advantages: it seems like you're having every packages installed, but without
-consuming unneeded harddisk space. So if you never use gimp, it doesn't change
-anything. The first time you call gimp, the package is installed (with the
-needed required packages).
-
-Bad points: security?
-
-
-INSTALLATION:
-* rpm -i autoirpm-???.rpm
-* optional (by default it takes /mnt/cdrom):
- edit /etc/autoirpm/files to give the location of the rpms
-* execute /usr/sbin/autoirpm-update
-
-TODO:
-* links to progs are not autoinstalled
-* automatic uninstall of unused packages :) (cron here)
-* add an interactive mode (term, X...).
-* maybe pb with ENV variables not completly the same (eg: "ksh" is not the same as "sh -c ksh")??
-* dependencies' versions
-* wrapper around rpm needed (call autoirpm-install.pm on rpm -e)
-
-FUTURE:
-* patch the kernel, so that if the open(2) (or maybe stat...) call fail, a
-script is called that install the needed file. Interesting for headers (.h),
-librairies (.so), man pages :)))) (crazy idea, but...)