X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2006 19:25:52 -0400 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: dselect - formally Re: Running as root Message-ID: <20060717232551.GA9791@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <002101c69200$3887d880$ec8b443d@elshaddai> <001401c694ba$f39c9130$7e8f443d@elshaddai> <001201c6a960$4d2e91d0$0100a8c0@JIREH> <44BB55BB.3050102@gmail.com> <001901c6a997$0637bdb0$0100a8c0@JIREH> <20060717141039.GA15465@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> <44BC1B1E.4090605@ukf.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <44BC1B1E.4090605@ukf.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: 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 On Tue, Jul 18, 2006 at 12:19:58AM +0100, Max Bowsher wrote: >Christopher Faylor wrote: >>On Mon, Jul 17, 2006 at 09:49:02PM +1000, Stephen Grant Brown wrote: >>>I am unable to use dselect for the inspection of packages in the Debian >>>distribution. >> >>Ok. Unless someone steps forward who is willing to maintain dpkg, it >>will be removed from the distribution in a few days. > >Is there any useful functionality actually provided by having dpkg for >Cygwin? If there is I'll have a go, but if it's just a toy that >happens to compile, but you can't actually do anything useful with, I >don't see the point. Um. That would be the kind of thing that a maintainer would know the answer to wouldn't it? 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/