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Date:	Wed, 4 May 2005 09:52:12 -0400
From:	Christopher Faylor <cgf-no-personal-reply-please AT cygwin DOT com>
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Subject:	Re: setup alternatives (was Re: Bespoke installations: simple elegance of setup.exe when setup.ini is absent)
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On Wed, May 04, 2005 at 03:04:24AM -0400, Arturus Magi wrote:
>Jani Tiainen wrote:
>>Why to reinvent wheel..?
>>
>>You could use existing systems, like Debian package-system (deb),
>>RPM-system like Fedora Core/RedHat, or Gentoo's Emerge.
>
>I also seem to recall someone using apt-get in Cygwin-space at one
>time, but Google doesn't want to be my friend today.

When I asked for alternatives I was thinking that maybe anyone who had
to use a screen reader would have a suggestion for software that was
more accessible than cygwin's setup.exe.  So far, I haven't seen any
suggestions which take that into account.

cgf

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