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n. [Usenet; poss.: fr.: DEC slang for a full software distribution, as
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opposed to a patch or upgrade] A source software distribution that has been
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packaged in such a way that it can (theoretically) be unpacked and installed
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according to a series of steps using only standard Unix tools, and entirely
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documented by some reasonable chain of references from the top-level README
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file. The more general term distribution may imply that special tools or
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more stringent conditions on the host environment are required.
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