From: Steven Penny <svnpenn@gmail.com>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: Package file lists archive
Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2014 21:58:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAAXzdLWb0Tx8gB96FEGEh3veys13YFA9aAtKB0PQmGL06EAvcg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140526201210.GB3903@ednor.casa.cgf.cx>
On Mon, May 26, 2014 at 3:12 PM, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> And, frankly, I think it's a bad idea to keep a monolithic list of
> packages available for people to download anyway.
I would counter that Debian and others who use "apt-get" already do this,
Example
http://http.debian.net/debian/dists/wheezy/main/Contents-amd64.gz
> This file maps each file available in the Debian GNU/Linux system to
> the package from which it originates. It includes packages from the
> DIST distribution for the ARCH architecture.
> You can use this list to determine which package contains a specific
> file, or whether or not a specific file is available. The list is
> updated weekly, each architecture on a different day.
so maybe you could voice your opinion to them as well.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-06-12 21:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-05-26 5:01 Steven Penny
2014-05-26 21:22 ` Christopher Faylor
2014-05-27 9:46 ` Steven Penny
2014-05-27 22:17 ` Christopher Faylor
2014-06-09 10:45 ` Steven Penny
2014-06-12 3:13 ` Steven Penny
2014-06-12 15:44 ` PolarStorm
2014-06-09 15:17 ` Warren Young
2014-06-09 16:17 ` Steven Penny
2014-06-17 14:29 ` Christopher Faylor
2014-06-18 4:29 ` Steven Penny
2014-06-18 6:18 ` Christopher Faylor
2014-06-18 6:53 ` Steven Penny
2014-06-18 12:29 ` Larry Hall (Cygwin)
2014-06-18 14:24 ` Steven Penny
2014-06-18 15:23 ` Christopher Faylor
2014-08-03 21:07 ` Steven Penny
2014-08-04 3:01 ` Yaakov Selkowitz
2014-08-04 3:38 ` Steven Penny
2014-08-07 17:38 ` Steven Penny
2014-08-07 17:49 ` Larry Hall (Cygwin)
2014-08-07 21:04 ` Steven Penny
2014-08-07 21:42 ` Larry Hall (Cygwin)
2014-08-08 1:05 ` Andrey Repin
2014-08-08 1:30 ` Steven Penny
2014-08-08 2:05 ` Andrey Repin
2014-08-08 2:13 ` Steven Penny
2014-08-08 3:21 ` Steven Penny
2014-08-08 3:33 ` Yaakov Selkowitz
2014-08-08 3:59 ` Steven Penny
2014-08-08 4:55 ` Yaakov Selkowitz
2014-06-18 15:22 ` Christopher Faylor
2014-06-12 21:58 ` Steven Penny [this message]
2014-06-17 14:27 ` Christopher Faylor
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