Cascaded patches rant

It amazes me that there are perhaps 250 patches resident on the Apple web and ftp sites, without a global index that indicates which patches are necessary for which Mac OS versions on which computers. Once a patch has been created, it seems to live forever.

The PowerPC Interrupt Extension - has it been rolled into 7.6, or not?

The Mac OS 7.6 distribution contains these versions:

Apple Remote Access Client 2.1
Cyberdog 1.2.1
English Text-to-Speech 1.5
Mac OS 7.6
MacLinkPlus 8.1
Open Transport PPP 1.0
OpenDoc 1.1.2
OpenDoc Essentials 1.0.1
QuickDraw 3D 1.0.6
QuickDraw GX 1.1.5
Spanish Text-to-Speech 1.5

You may wish to obtain the following updated versions from Apple's web or ftp site:

Open Transport 1.1.2
QuickDraw 3D 1.5

By the way, why did it take so long for Apple to figure out how to boot the system from a CD-ROM? Apple should consider it a huge embarassment that there were two versions of the System 7.5 CD-ROM. (The first was not bootable.)