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>>>>> "H" == H Peter Anvin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Scott McDermott wrote:
>> > On the other hand, I would like to point out that THEY ARE LOCAL FILES
>> > DAMMIT... so "interoperability" is a pretty bad argument.
>> Agree on point of included maps...but I don't understand why you are so
>> vehemently opposed to direct maps.
> I'm not. It's just that they are hard as hell to implement properly.
And that there are scripts floating around which will create the
symlinks+indirectmap out of the direct map, solving 95% of the problem.
Stefan
