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From: Achim Gratz <Stromeko@nexgo.de>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: Cygwin Statistics and curiosity
Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2019 20:31:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <874lafey1v.fsf@Rainer.invalid> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAOTD34Z9doPr1wcZRy9uc7jauZf=nVJfmMNO9e2gbLvzEqKZCw@mail.gmail.com>	(E. Madison Bray's message of "Fri, 11 Jan 2019 14:40:10 +0100")

E. Madison Bray writes:
> I have often wondered why apt-cyg [1] hasn't been adopted fully by
> Cygwin as one of the default packages (in fact I'm not sure if there
> even is an actual cygwin package for apt-cyg), aside from the fact
> that it's not formally maintained as part of the cygwin ecosystem.
> Maybe it should be.

For starters, apt-cyg and the handful of purported alternatives will
break your installation in subtle and not-so subtle ways.  None of them
handle all postinstall actions correctly and all of them will fall over
if locked in-use files have to be altered or replaced.


Regards,
Achim.
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2019-01-11 20:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-05-01 12:50 Marco Atzeri
2018-05-01 21:07 ` Keith Christian
2018-05-01 23:22 ` R0b0t1
2018-05-02  5:32   ` Marco Atzeri
2019-01-11 13:40   ` E. Madison Bray
2019-01-11 14:49     ` David Dombrowsky
2019-01-11 16:16       ` Lemke, Michael  ST/HZA-ZIC2
2019-01-11 16:29         ` Corinna Vinschen
2019-01-11 16:40           ` Lemke, Michael  ST/HZA-ZIC2
2019-01-11 16:43             ` Corinna Vinschen
2019-01-11 17:13               ` Vince Rice
2019-01-13  1:49         ` David Dombrowsky
2019-01-13  2:32           ` Marco Atzeri
2019-01-13 22:36             ` Corinna Vinschen
2019-01-11 20:31     ` Achim Gratz [this message]
2019-01-11 22:16       ` E. Madison Bray
2018-05-02  5:41 ` Brian Inglis
2018-05-02  6:03 ` Marco Atzeri

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