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dpkg-mountable adds an access method called `mountable'
to dselect's list, which allows you to install from any
filesystem specified in /etc/fstab (eg. a normal hard
disk partition, or an NFS server), which it will
automatically mount and umount for you if necessary.
It also has some extra features not found in the
standard dselect methods, such as provision for a local
file tree (either parallel to the main distribution or
totally separate), and only getting packages which are
required, rather than the time-consuming recursive
directory scan, as well as logging of all dpkg actions
in the install method.
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