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: <427873F8.6020108@isonews2.com> Date: Wed, 04 May 2005 03:04:24 -0400 From: Arturus Magi Reply-To: sailorleo@isonews2.com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041217 Mnenhy/0.6.0.104 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: setup alternatives (was Re: Bespoke installations: simple elegance of setup.exe when setup.ini is absent) References: <53BD2E0187CCDE4C81FA4B7DCFB0513905B7D1@CASCITRIX01.hq.castel.com> <00da01c54fd4$e1dbd9f0$e6ec6f83@chimaera> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Jani Tiainen wrote: > > Why to reinvent wheel..? > > You could use existing systems, like Debian package-system (deb), > RPM-system like Fedora Core/RedHat, or Gentoo's Emerge. I also seem to recall someone using apt-get in Cygwin-space at one time, but Google doesn't want to be my friend today. -- 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/