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Date: Tue, 26 Dec 2000 18:12:39 -0500
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Subject: Re: cygwin setup
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> hopefully this doesnt turn out to be a silly question, but is the source
> for the setup utility available?

Yes.  Get the cygwin sources, and it's in src/winsup/cinstall.

> also, is there any interest to use (real) packages in cygwin?

There was, until we added .tar.gz support to setup :-)

Seriously, people have talked about RPM, but until someone decides to
actually *do* something, tarballs remain the standard "package" format
for Cygwin.

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