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Christopher Faylor wrote:

> Using setup.exe for this task makes me think that people believe
> setup.exe is doing something mysterious.  It really isn't.  Even if you
> wanted to go to the effort of unpacking tar.bz2 files you could still do
> it all with bash, tar, and mount, avoiding setup.exe entirely.

Except that setup.exe is "bootstrapping" the install all by itself
and managing package dependencies.

Ralph

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