From:	sos AT prospect DOT com DOT ru (Sergey Okhapkin)
Subject:	RE: cygwin32-developers problems?
11 Mar 1998 00:00:42 -0800 :
Message-ID:	<01BD4CD9.A272D210.cygnus.cygwin32.developers@gater.krystalbank.msk.ru>
Cc:	"cygwin32-developers AT cygnus DOT com" <cygwin32-developers AT cygnus DOT com>

Tom Tromey wrote:
> Christopher> You could modify the installation procedure so that there
> Christopher> were three (or more?) packages.  A "base" package, a
> Christopher> "developers" package, a "users" package.  This is nearly
> Christopher> what is done now, but you could also allow click and
> Christopher> choose installation of specific packages.
> 
> Why stop there?
> Why not just use packages, like Debian or Red Hat?
> In fact, isn't there already some initiative to do something like this
> (host Debian on top of Cygwin)?
> 

If so, you have to rewrite top level makefile to support packaging. The idea seems good to me.

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Sergey Okhapkin
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