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Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2001 14:52:03 -0800
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Subject: Re: attn: which, bzip2,gzip maintainers (was Re: some problems with setup.ini)
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On 28 Nov 2001 at 12:42, Christopher Faylor wrote:

> [removed cygwin AT cygwin from the To:]
> On Wed, Nov 28, 2001 at 08:05:02PM +1100, Robert Collins wrote:
> >Lets move this to cygwin-apps.
> >
> >On Tue, 2001-11-27 at 08:36, Joshua Franklin wrote:
> >> This doesn't help the known gettext problem, but
> >> a couple setup.hint files still need updating:
> >> 
> >> which still relies on jpeg and zlib for no reason
> >
> >Agreed - can the which maintainer stand up please.
> 
> Sorry.  That was probably my fault.  I thought I'd fixed that.
>  
> >> rxvt is still in shells, not utils
> >
> >I'm still not 100% sure that utils is appropriate.
> 
> Me neither.

	FWIW, Mingw doesn't have an extensive utils as part of base distribution.  Even 
so, you can download binutils as a separate enhancement from several sources.

	Primarily, however, that usually turns out being the binutils package maintained 
at the Sourceforge site by Mingw developers.

	Paul G.

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