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Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2003 20:35:19 +0100
From: Marcel Telka <marcel AT telka DOT sk>
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: RPM-4.1 port to Cygwin available
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On Wed, Mar 26, 2003 at 10:06:35AM -0800, Shankar Unni wrote:
> Yann Crausaz wrote:
> 
> >The version of setup.exe I propose must be a bit old, isn't it ? If there's
> >a real interest, I'm OK to care about the latest version, but will poeple
> >really use RPM under Cygwin ? 
> 
> Good point.
> 
> The real benefit to porting RPM or apt-get or whatever to Windows is as 
> a possible replacement for the current installation system (if anyone 
> considers RPM, and its associated GUIs, an improvement, that is).
> 
> For that, however, these programs need to be *native Windows binaries* 
> (i.e. no cygwin layer underneath), or you'd have a chicken-and-egg 
> problem doing a first-time installation (or any time you updated cygwin 
> itself).

What about linking cygwin library statically into rpm (or apt-get) binary?

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