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From: michael AT weiser DOT saale-net DOT de (Michael Weiser)
Subject: Re: Yet another GNU-Win32 website...
11 Aug 1998 04:07:35 -0700 :
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To: Jeff Sturm <jsturm AT sigma6 DOT com>
Cc: gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com

Hi Jeff,

You wrote:

>What do we need to adopt RPM?  Has anyone ported the rpm utilities yet?
>
>More importantly, before RPM (or any package installer) will succeed on
>cygwin32 there should be some sort of filesystem standard, like the
>FSSTD for Linux.  Does everybody have a /usr directory?  Howabout /var? 
>The installer doesn't create these, so for now they are optional...
Okay, any interest in writing a first draft and posting it for
discussion? :)

bye

Michael
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