Tim Shoppa: This brings up a question: should fixes (and I mean fundamental fixes like Y2K ones) be incorporated back into the boot images in the archive, or should they be left in their "pristine" state? (Yes, i know, some of those boot images aren't quite so pristine.) I would argue strongly that the archive should contain absolutely pure copies of any historic objects, whether they were proper distributions or just snapshots like most of the older boot images. It's important to preserve accurate, unbowdlerized history; that is part of what we should be doing. There's nothing wrong with keeping fixed-up versions too, but but they should be clearly distinguished from the historic originals. (Perhaps we could label them `ancient' and `primary platform'?) Even using a CVS repository somehow doesn't feel kosher to me, though that is probably silly as long as it is possible (and clear how) to extract the unimproved original, and as long as the very original distribution or dump tape or whatnot is kept around too so that future archaeologists have the right thing to study. Norman Wilson 684 Crawford Street, Toronto (Formerly 696 Crawford Street before a renumbering in the 1950s; I keep thinking of putting the old number up too.) Received: (from major@localhost) by minnie.cs.adfa.edu.au (8.9.3/8.9.3) id UAA48301 for pups-liszt; Thu, 6 Jan 2000 20:35:35 +1100 (EST)