Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com X-Authentication-Warning: localhost.localdomain: ronald owned process doing -bs Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2003 13:02:57 +0100 (CET) From: Ronald Landheer-Cieslak X-X-Sender: ronald@localhost.localdomain To: Yann Crausaz cc: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: RPM-4.1 port to Cygwin available In-Reply-To: <3E804EAB00019620@mss4n.bluewin.ch> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII On Thu, 27 Mar 2003, Yann Crausaz wrote: > Your views are right, BUT poeple who were use to work under *NIX (like > me) really like to find known tools as they have to change their working > environment , and poeple trying to execute *NIX binaries under Cygwin > will always exist ! Don't you think so ? Yeah, but I'm just afraid that there will be a *lot* more of them if we start using RPM as an installer. What I would really be in favour of is a slightly intelligent port of RPM (or perhaps even making RPM itself slightly more intelligent) and have it complain if you try to make it install non-native binaries. Of course, there are valid reasons to want to do that (need libraries when cross-compiling, for example) but a warning wouldn't hurt in such cases.. Being completely unfamiliar with the RPM codebase and this not being a Cygwin-specific thing makes this idea completely OT here, though.. rlc [snipped quoted messages] -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/