Kit
<jargon> (
Usenet, possibly from
DEC) 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
README file.
The more general term
distribution may imply that special tools or more stringent conditions on the host environment are required.
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