Mail Archives: cygwin/1998/02/10/09:12:29
Exactly -- among other things.
The initial thing to do is clever modularizing the initial dist.,
thinking over what are the packages setup choices,
the next step can be a package mgmt procedure like that on the new
Slackware, RedHead or Debian.
Moreover, I think that the package management tools need not be
rewritten -- we can borrow significant amt from there.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ronald Van Iwaarden [SMTP:vaniwaar AT ca DOT metsci DOT com]
> Sent: Tuesday, February 10, 1998 12:13 AM
> To: Vassilii Khachaturov
> Cc: Gnu-Win32 (E-mail)
> Subject: Re: Beta-19 and configurations....
>
> Sounds like you're suggesting a slackware type distribution. That
> could
> be nice if it were integrated with an auto-ftp feature so that one
> uses an
> install program that goes and looks for a list of what it can install,
> provides a menu to the user and then installs what the user wants
> after
> ftping the files to their computers.
>
> --Ron
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