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From: tfb@tfeb.org (Tim Bradshaw)
Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2017 18:58:09 +0000
Subject: [TUHS] Package Management
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On 24 Jan 2017, at 17:46, Henry Bent <henry.r.bent at gmail.com> wrote:
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> A quick look through some manuals shows that SunOS 3 (same timeframe) appears to have had a user-friendly initial setup program but it's not clear to me if it could be used after an installation to deinstall/modify/upgrade/etc. 

I don't think it could.  I also remember that SunOS 4's installer was somehow much more rudimentary.  I remember (for both) that things like patches were just tarballs or some equivalent: there was no registry I think.  However my memory is not reliable.

--tim