X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <44BCF4E9.9000903@ukf.net> Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2006 15:49:13 +0100 From: Max Bowsher Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050923 Thunderbird/1.0.7 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> OpenPGP: id=C0F2C580 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="------------enig14CAB7769458203D7550A5A9" X-IsSubscribed: yes 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 --------------enig14CAB7769458203D7550A5A9 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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? I know what the program _does_ - I just don't see how what it does can be useful, when no one is producing .deb format packages for Cygwin. (For that matter, the same argument applies to 'rpm' - it's present in the Cygwin archive, but can anyone actually use it for anything useful, since there are no .rpm format packages for Cygwin?) Max. --------------enig14CAB7769458203D7550A5A9 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.1 (Cygwin) iD8DBQFEvPTpfFNSmcDyxYARAs18AJ0VQ5dVU0TEkuqutOuuOogckXoprQCdFNpQ /vXwcAAfDNidnll/7+tWCI0= =XdYQ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------enig14CAB7769458203D7550A5A9--