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From: Milton Calnek <milton AT calnek DOT com>
Subject: RPM.  Was: Re: press for cygwin 
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In-reply-to: "Fri, 31 Aug 2001 13:30:22 -0400." "Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" <lhall@rfk.com>  
Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2001 11:48:50 +0600

So all of this makes me want to ask the question:

When will the cygwin install support a more rpm'ish style
install so that we can know less and still pick & choose
packages.

I kind of thought that given the close ties to RedHat, that
it would have it by now...

Inspite of the missing rpm features in the setup, I think cygwin
is great.  My thanks to all the developers involved.

In message <4 DOT 3 DOT 1 DOT 2 DOT 20010831110054 DOT 021ae218 AT pop DOT ma DOT ultranet DOT com>, "Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" writes:
> 
> The issue of performing a full Cygwin installation is one that this list
> understands well and is something that's being addressed.  The strong
> recommendation to install *all* packages comes from the fact that there
> are implicit interdependencies among packages.  Folks who try to 
> pick-and-choose the packages they want without an understanding of the 
> 
> 
> Larry Hall                              lhall AT rfk DOT com
> RFK Partners, Inc.                      http://www.rfk.com
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> 

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