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: <00a301c30896$b0aa8e30$876386d9@ellixia> Reply-To: "Elfyn McBratney" From: "Elfyn McBratney" To: "cygwin" , "Dan Kegel" References: <768A0EA6FF8CB34FA522978966E5D52E021370A9@bwam02msx.ae.ge.com> <20030417172623.GB12623@redhat.com> <02de01c3087f$913c68f0$ac7986d9@ellixia> <1050987478.842.46.camel@localhost> <006f01c30892$51fd5470$876386d9@ellixia> <3EA4DD73.9010004@kegel.com> Subject: Re: Cygwin - Versioned Distro's (was Re: A request?) Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2003 07:16:18 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4910.0300 > 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) LOL! In theory it could be a good thing. But it would be a hell of lot of work, some poor sole would have to write the spec, and if I understand the LSB standard correctly you can't (or shouldn't) just have a one-way relationship. Plus there's already some confusion about Cygwin being linux on-top-of windows. Elfyn -- 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/