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[Alain Schremmer]

My academic curiosity is completely satisfied.
Thanks very much.
--schremmer

Gerben Wierda wrote:

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> On Jun 4, 2004, at 5:05 PM, Alain Schremmer wrote:
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>>  Gerben Wierda wrote:
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>> On Jun 4, 2004, at 03:59, Anthony Morton wrote:
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>>
>>  Personally I like to think of i-Installer as 'Fink without the=20
>> baggage', but I don't know that Gerben would want to go that far.=A0 =
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> :-)
>
>>
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>>  I think more of it as "Installer.app on steroids", but I am aware=20
>> that Installer.app has also grown and provides functionality that=20
>> i-Installer does not. Installer is able only to install what is 
>> needed=20=
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>> (after having downloaded it all) in a fine grained way, i-installer=20
>> installs large chunks, but only downloads these as needed. Again, 
>> both=20=
>
>
>> approaches have advantages and disadvantages.
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>>  G
>>  Again just out of academic curiosity. Are you saying that:
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>> Apple Installer downloads everything and then picks and choses from=20
>> what it has downloaded what it needs to install and leaves the rest=20
>> lying around
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> Apple Installer does not download at all. But Software Update does. 
> Or=20=
>
> you do it by hand. You download a .dmg, on it is a .pkg, in the .pkg 
> is=20=
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> everything that could be needed. Apple's Installer then analyses what=20
> is in the package and compares it with what is in your system and=20
> *only* installs what is needed. If you download some combined updater=20
> which contains stuff you have already installed, it won't install it=20
> again. This is as far as I know what Installer.app *can* do, not that=20
> all Installer.app packages *will* do.
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>>  while
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>> i-installer decides up front what it will need to install and then=20
>> picks and choses what actually to download from what is downloadable?
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>
> Yes, but it does it in rather big chunks.
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>>  Regards
>>  --schremmer
>> =20=
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