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Date: Wed, 29 May 2002 13:08:43 -0400
To: "John Vincent" <jpv50 AT hotmail DOT com>, cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
From: "Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" <lhall AT rfk DOT com>
Subject: Re: Install methods
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At 11:46 AM 5/29/2002, John Vincent wrote:
>Hi,
>
>Since I see that RPM has been ported to cygwin,
>it might be nice to have a tarball (or a setup.exe
>package) that installed RPM and all it's dependencies,
>and then you could use RPM to install whatever other
>cygwin packages you wanted.
>
>Not quite as user-friendly as a GUI interface, but a
>very flexible alternative.
>
>Just a suggestion.



Thanks.  As it turns out, we've heard that one before too.  Like other
package suggestions, this one is just waiting for a maintainer.



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