\chapter*{Assignment text}

The assignment is given as part of the project in the ninth semester
of the master in technology at the Department of Computer and
Information Science at the Faculty of Information Technology,
Mathematics and Electrical Engineering, NTNU.

The assignment text is as follows: { \em Analyze and identify
  conceptual problems in current third party application packaging,
  distribution and configuration technology under \unix systems.
  Evaluate existing tools and suggest functionality for new or
  existing tools that handles these problems.}  The assignment is
given by Anders Christensen, leader of the technical group at
Department of Computer and Information Science.
