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 Message-ID: <3EA4DD73.9010004@kegel.com> Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2003 23:13:07 -0700 From: Dan Kegel User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.3) Gecko/20030313 X-Accept-Language: de-de, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Elfyn McBratney CC: cygwin Subject: Re: Cygwin - Versioned Distro's (was Re: A request?) References: <768A0EA6FF8CB34FA522978966E5D52E021370A9@bwam02msx.ae.ge.com> <20030417172623.GB12623@redhat.com> <02de01c3087f$913c68f0$ac7986d9@ellixia> <1050987478.842.46.camel@localhost> <006f01c30892$51fd5470$876386d9@ellixia> In-Reply-To: <006f01c30892$51fd5470$876386d9@ellixia> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Elfyn McBratney wrote: >>>using the cutting-edge in Cygwin then they'll just use the >>>net release. Could also be the birth of CPM, too. >> >>Control Program/Monitor? > > > Cygwin Package Manager... If I might lob a grenade into the frey, how about using Connectiva's port of apt to support the rpm format? That'd be able to handle LSB packages. And yes, I'd like to see Cygwin become LSB compliant. 'Course, we'd need to write a subprofile of LSB for systems that use the PE executable format. (/me ducks) - Dan -- Dan Kegel http://www.kegel.com http://counter.li.org/cgi-bin/runscript/display-person.cgi?user=78045 -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/