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["Eric Sandall" <sandalle AT hellhound.homeip.net>]

Derek Moyes said:
> Do you mean during the install or after the install?
>
> 'Cause if it's after the install (remember -- installing networking
> happens almost last!) then lynx can be removed from the ISO. It's a
> simple matter to `cast lynx`.
>
> Also... we could go back to a system we had before (the KS thing) which
> I thought was cool... there were "fake" system commands installed,
> little shell scripts that automatically cast the program or package in
> question when they were first run. So, for instance, if you typed
> $ lynx
>
> and lynx wasn't installed, it would cast automatically. I can think of
> several commands that this would be very handy for.
>
> Not sure why we got away from that, but with all that's happened... :-)
>
>  -- Derek, dmoney

We still have it (though I don't if it still works, as I haven't used it
in a while).  It is called "Apprentice Mode", and you can turn it on/off
using the sorcery menu.

We could probably add a few programs to it, as last I recall killall
wasn't one of the programs which used Apprentice.

-One of Three

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