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Hello,

* On Fri, Dec 05, 2008 at 11:26:24AM -0000 John Emmas wrote:
> Does anyone know where cygwin stores its information about which packages
> are currently installed?

My completely unauthoritative answer:

/etc/setup

Also look at

/etc/postinstall
and
/etc/preremove

HTH,
Spiro.

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