From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 31961 invoked by alias); 9 Dec 2014 23:28:38 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 31952 invoked by uid 89); 9 Dec 2014 23:28:37 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-1.7 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 X-HELO: smtp204.alice.it Received: from smtp204.alice.it (HELO smtp204.alice.it) (82.57.200.100) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Tue, 09 Dec 2014 23:28:35 +0000 Received: from [192.168.1.102] (87.21.227.179) by smtp204.alice.it (8.6.060.43) (authenticated as angelo.graziosi@alice.it) id 54787F37014A5D0B for cygwin@cygwin.com; Wed, 10 Dec 2014 00:28:37 +0100 Message-ID: <5487859D.9000409@alice.it> Date: Tue, 09 Dec 2014 23:28:00 -0000 From: Angelo Graziosi User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.3.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] TEST RELEASE: Cygwin 1.7.34-002 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-15; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2014-12/txt/msg00142.txt.bz2 Corinna Vinschen wrote: > How nice. We have all the work and they simple grab it and don't give > anything back to their upstream project. ...the *Dark* side of free (GPL?) software... I guess.. In any case, you could always *grab* their "pacman" manager.. Besides being very appealing, it would avoid the long thread [*] on cygwin-apps list.. Why what aims to be a "..Linux feeling - on Windows" should have a "package manager" (setup.exe :( ) which install deps more o less silently... apt-get, yum, pacman, port (on OSX) (and, I sure, others) always warn the user about which packages are to be installed.. Unless you adopt a 'true' package manager, I would not change the current behavior of setup.exe.. Ciao, Angelo. --- [*] https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-apps/2014-12/msg00017.html -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple