From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: etoffi@softhome.net
To: cygwin@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: cygwin setup
Date: Tue, 26 Dec 2000 15:31:00 -0000
Message-id: <20001226232057.6036.qmail@softhome.net>
References: <20001226225803.23291.qmail@softhome.net> <200012262312.SAA24914@envy.delorie.com>
X-SW-Source: 2000-12/msg01126.html

DJ Delorie writes:

> > also, is there any interest to use (real) packages in cygwin?
> 
> There was, until we added .tar.gz support to setup :-)
> 
> Seriously, people have talked about RPM, but until someone decides to
> actually *do* something, tarballs remain the standard "package" format
> for Cygwin.

im not particuarly ecstatic about rpm (at least the binary format). i think
they shoudlve done something similar to waht the deb format does. eh.


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etoffi


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