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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 MAYBE 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...)