From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 1093 invoked by alias); 29 Jul 2008 16:37:27 -0000 Received: (qmail 1083 invoked by uid 22791); 29 Jul 2008 16:37:27 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from mtaout02-winn.ispmail.ntl.com (HELO mtaout02-winn.ispmail.ntl.com) (81.103.221.48) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Tue, 29 Jul 2008 16:37:03 +0000 Received: from aamtaout02-winn.ispmail.ntl.com ([81.103.221.35]) by mtaout02-winn.ispmail.ntl.com with ESMTP id <20080729163700.QXWO21103.mtaout02-winn.ispmail.ntl.com@aamtaout02-winn.ispmail.ntl.com> for ; Tue, 29 Jul 2008 17:37:00 +0100 Received: from gateway.morrison.mine.nu ([82.21.193.42]) by aamtaout02-winn.ispmail.ntl.com with ESMTP id <20080729163700.XXUL19289.aamtaout02-winn.ispmail.ntl.com@gateway.morrison.mine.nu> for ; Tue, 29 Jul 2008 17:37:00 +0100 Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=mail.morrison.mine.nu ident=www-data) by gateway.morrison.mine.nu with esmtp (Exim 4.69 #1 (Debian)) id 1KNsC2-0002vc-Lv for ; Tue, 29 Jul 2008 17:36:58 +0100 Received: from 192.168.0.249 (SquirrelMail authenticated user john) by mail.morrison.mine.nu with HTTP; Tue, 29 Jul 2008 17:36:58 +0100 (BST) Message-ID: <40e575aeeead0d1901cf3fc8f51c1075.squirrel@mail.morrison.mine.nu> In-Reply-To: <488F257D.2E56FFA8@dessent.net> References: <488F257D.2E56FFA8@dessent.net> Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2008 16:37:00 -0000 Subject: Re: Package Grep source and Program not installed functionality From: "John Morrison" To: cygwin-apps@cygwin.com User-Agent: SquirrelMail/1.4.15 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Mailing-List: contact cygwin-apps-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk Sender: cygwin-apps-owner@cygwin.com List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Mail-Followup-To: cygwin-apps@cygwin.com X-SW-Source: 2008-07/txt/msg00177.txt.bz2 On Tue, July 29, 2008 3:13 pm, Brian Dessent wrote: > John Morrison wrote: > >> Would it be possible to extend the cgi >> >> http://cygwin.com/cgi-bin2/package-grep.cgi >> >> to (optionally) output plain text instead of the formatted HTML? >> >> Add a output=text instruction? If the source is available I'd be >> willing >> to see if I could do the mod. I was thinking of some kind of command >> line >> which would simplify the users finding out what package they would need >> to >> install to access a particular tool, for example on my ubuntu machine; > > This already exists, it's spelled "cygcheck -p". I didn't know. Thanks for the sarcasm. God I'd forgotten just how nasty this list can be. And all for wanting to make cygwin a 'nicer' environment for new/inexperienced users. J.