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 Date: Wed, 4 May 2005 09:52:12 -0400 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: setup alternatives (was Re: Bespoke installations: simple elegance of setup.exe when setup.ini is absent) Message-ID: <20050504135212.GB29451@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <53BD2E0187CCDE4C81FA4B7DCFB0513905B7D1@CASCITRIX01.hq.castel.com> <00da01c54fd4$e1dbd9f0$e6ec6f83@chimaera> <427873F8.6020108@isonews2.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <427873F8.6020108@isonews2.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.8i On Wed, May 04, 2005 at 03:04:24AM -0400, Arturus Magi wrote: >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. When I asked for alternatives I was thinking that maybe anyone who had to use a screen reader would have a suggestion for software that was more accessible than cygwin's setup.exe. So far, I haven't seen any suggestions which take that into account. cgf -- 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/