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| <h1>Introduction to Lorax<a class="headerlink" href="#introduction-to-lorax" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h1>
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| <p>I am the Lorax.  I speak for the trees [and images].</p>
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| <h1>Before Lorax<a class="headerlink" href="#before-lorax" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h1>
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| <p>EXISTING WORKFLOW:</p>
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| <p>pungi and other tools call scripts/buildinstall, which in turn call other
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| <p>-> call upd-instroot</p>
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| root created by upd-instroot in order to build the stage 1 image, though
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| <p>NEW IDEAS:</p>
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| <p>Create a new central driver with all information living in Python modules.
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