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Date: | Wed, 2 Jan 2002 15:08:31 -0500 |
From: | Christopher Faylor <cgf AT redhat DOT com> |
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Subject: | Re: which which |
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On Wed, Jan 02, 2002 at 02:27:35PM -0500, Norman Vine wrote: >John Morrison writes: > >>Maybe all the packages ought to state where they originated? > >FWIW this often helps :-) > >% package --version > >Should support for this be a requirement for all Cygwin packages ? >AFAIK it is for gnu applications We're not going to require that people modify non-GNU packages to adhere to GNU conventions. Possibly we should have this as a requirement for new packages, though. FWIW, Cygwin is not a GNU project. There is no reason to believe that every package it provides is a GNU package. And, I don't see any reason to add flashing "not a GNU package" to the packages that don't come from ftp.gnu.org. cgf
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