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From: | Achim Gratz <Stromeko AT nexgo DOT de> |
To: | cygwin AT cygwin DOT com |
Subject: | Re: Cygwin Statistics and curiosity |
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Date: | Fri, 11 Jan 2019 21:31:24 +0100 |
In-Reply-To: | <CAOTD34Z9doPr1wcZRy9uc7jauZf=nVJfmMNO9e2gbLvzEqKZCw@mail.gmail.com> (E. Madison Bray's message of "Fri, 11 Jan 2019 14:40:10 +0100") |
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E. Madison Bray writes: > I have often wondered why apt-cyg [1] hasn't been adopted fully by > Cygwin as one of the default packages (in fact I'm not sure if there > even is an actual cygwin package for apt-cyg), aside from the fact > that it's not formally maintained as part of the cygwin ecosystem. > Maybe it should be. For starters, apt-cyg and the handful of purported alternatives will break your installation in subtle and not-so subtle ways. None of them handle all postinstall actions correctly and all of them will fall over if locked in-use files have to be altered or replaced. Regards, Achim. -- +<[Q+ Matrix-12 WAVE#46+305 Neuron microQkb Andromeda XTk Blofeld]>+ SD adaptation for Waldorf microQ V2.22R2: http://Synth.Stromeko.net/Downloads.html#WaldorfSDada -- 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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