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Date: | Fri, 28 Aug 2009 19:55:18 +0100 |
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Subject: | Re: Adding packages (was: mkfs.jffs2 support in CYGWIN) |
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Larry Hall: > Adding a link to <http://cygwin.com/setup.exe> shouldn't be allot of work > and may help if the menu was properly named. Good idea. I'll throw a name into the ring: "Cygwin package manager". >=C2=A0Beyond that requires significant changes to 'setup.exe' What would be needed beyond the packaging? I guess one problem is that setup.exe couldn't update itself; could it rely on the "do it at next reboot" solution instead? > which would require some volunteer effort to make it happen. Don't think I've got spare cycles to commit, unfortunately. cgf: > I've actually been trying to make setup.exe more usable from the command > line so that it could be used as an update client like "yum" or "apt-get". I think that's well worth doing, since many people do prefer that approach. The big Linux distributions all seem to have ended up supporting both the CLI and GUI approaches though, even if they originally preferred one or the other. Andy -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
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