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On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 03:04:02PM -0500, Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote: >On Wed, 2010-06-23 at 15:55 -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote: >> I've opted for using the union of previous and curr requirements but >> that's not really too great either. This is one of many places where >> we could use a real package manager. > >And you're not the only one. The problem with that is it can pull in >old libraries which (if nothing else depends on them) are simply not >necessary, and e.g. on my system, ImageBase real estate is at a premium. > >Here's a radical question: do we really need to allow for multiple >versions of every package? Other distros don't do this, why should we? I think that the reason that other distros don't do this is that they do more testing on their releases than we do - probably because they do real releases, unlike Cygwin. cgf -- 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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