Subject: RE: "local install"?
From: "Robert Collins" <[email-masked]>
To: "Charles Wilson" <[email-masked]>, "Randall R Schulz" <[email-masked]>
Cc: "Markus Hoenicka" <[email-masked]>, <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 2 Mar 2002 11:04:31 +1100

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Charles Wilson [mailto:[email-masked]] 

> Perhaps the Emacs folks (NOT XEmacs -- they already have a different 
> solution) will create a cygwin-setup dirtree once their 
> cygwin port is 
> complete.  Perhaps folks who have ported a package and want 
> to make it 
> available, but do NOT want to accept the maintainership 
> responsibilities 
> that go with *official* package inclusion, will create 
> cygwin-setup-compatible distribution sites with custom setup.ini's. 
> These are all great things, and are reason enough for the multi-site 
> selection capability -- regardless of whether YOU actually use that 
> particular feature.

Yes - federation is good. RPM and .deb achieved this a long time ago...
And now we do to :].

Rob

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