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From:	etoffi AT softhome DOT net
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Subject:	Re: cygwin setup
Date:	Tue, 26 Dec 2000 23:20:57 GMT
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DJ Delorie writes:

> > also, is there any interest to use (real) packages in cygwin?
> 
> There was, until we added .tar.gz support to setup :-)
> 
> Seriously, people have talked about RPM, but until someone decides to
> actually *do* something, tarballs remain the standard "package" format
> for Cygwin.

im not particuarly ecstatic about rpm (at least the binary format). i think
they shoudlve done something similar to waht the deb format does. eh.


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