X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <44BC1E83.2060704@cygwin.com> Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2006 19:34:27 -0400 From: "Larry Hall (Cygwin)" Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8) Gecko/20060112 Fedora/1.5-1.fc4.remi Thunderbird/1.5 Mnenhy/0.7.4.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: dselect - formally Re: Running as root 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> <20060717232551.GA9791@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> In-Reply-To: <20060717232551.GA9791@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 Christopher Faylor wrote: > 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? Maybe that's why he skipped town. ;-) From my perspective, the current functionality can be likened to a version of tar that only implements the "t" option flag. I suppose it's in the eye of the beholder as to whether dselect's limited functionality has some value but I would posit that it's confusing to have the current functionality called "dselect", since that implies more than this implementation is. -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 216 Dalton Rd. (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 -- 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/