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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>kit</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../K.html" title="K"/><link rel="previous" href="KISS-Principle.html" title="KISS Principle"/><link rel="next" href="KLB.html" title="KLB"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">kit</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="KISS-Principle.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">K</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="KLB.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="kit"/><dt xmlns="" id="kit"><b>kit</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> [Usenet; poss.: fr.: <a href="../D/DEC.html"><i class="glossterm">DEC</i></a> slang for a full
software distribution, as opposed to a patch or upgrade] A source software
distribution that has been packaged in such a way that it can
(theoretically) be unpacked and installed according to a series of steps
using only standard Unix tools, and entirely documented by some reasonable
chain of references from the top-level <a href="../R/README-file.html"><i class="glossterm">README file</i></a>.
The more general term <a href="../D/distribution.html"><i class="glossterm">distribution</i></a> may imply that
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