From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 27445 invoked by alias); 29 May 2002 17:16:32 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 27410 invoked from network); 29 May 2002 17:16:24 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ligarius-fe0.ultra.net) (146.115.8.189) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 29 May 2002 17:16:24 -0000 Received: from enterprise-e.rfk.com (207-172-216-190.s952.apx1.sbo.ma.dialup.rcn.com [207.172.216.190]) by ligarius-fe0.ultra.net (8.8.8/ult/n26500/mtc.v2) with ESMTP id NAA08162; Wed, 29 May 2002 13:16:18 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <4.3.1.2.20020529130739.02719008@pop.ma.ultranet.com> X-Sender: lhall@pop.ma.ultranet.com Date: Wed, 29 May 2002 12:14:00 -0000 To: "John Vincent" , cygwin@cygwin.com From: "Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" Subject: Re: Install methods In-Reply-To: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-SW-Source: 2002-05/txt/msg01791.txt.bz2 At 11:46 AM 5/29/2002, John Vincent wrote: >Hi, > >Since I see that RPM has been ported to cygwin, >it might be nice to have a tarball (or a setup.exe >package) that installed RPM and all it's dependencies, >and then you could use RPM to install whatever other >cygwin packages you wanted. > >Not quite as user-friendly as a GUI interface, but a >very flexible alternative. > >Just a suggestion. Thanks. As it turns out, we've heard that one before too. Like other package suggestions, this one is just waiting for a maintainer. Larry Hall lhall@rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. http://www.rfk.com 838 Washington Street (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office Holliston, MA 01746 (508) 893-9889 - FAX -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/