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From: Marco Atzeri <marco.atzeri@gmail.com>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: setup and "provides:" on third party repository
Date: Thu, 6 Jan 2022 12:35:35 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <c8596718-8571-bb78-ec39-6378611e6841@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87y23t15f8.fsf@Rainer.invalid>

On 06.01.2022 12:15, Achim Gratz wrote:
> Marco Atzeri writes:
>> one think that I noted recently is that setup is not storing the
>> "provides:" information on the installation.
> 
> There's no place for it to store information about virtual packages.

I see no reason to not use

   /etc/setup/installed.db

as for the normal packages

>> It is a bit annoying, can you put in the TODO list ?
> 
> I think the details should be discussed on cygwin-apps.

I leave to Jon

> 
> Regards,
> Achim.

Regards
Marco


  reply	other threads:[~2022-01-06 11:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-01-06  6:57 Marco Atzeri
2022-01-06 11:15 ` Achim Gratz
2022-01-06 11:35   ` Marco Atzeri [this message]
2022-01-10 15:55 ` Jon Turney

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