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From: Sam Steingold <sds AT gnu DOT org>
Subject: Re: Cygwin Package List Web Page Suggestion
Date: Fri, 05 Dec 2003 14:43:03 -0500
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> * Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) <OOhpuovaqre AT avnvq DOT avu DOT tbi> [2003-12-05 13:09:43 -0500]:
>
> Often I have question about package (for example, what it requires) and must
> look up the answer in setup.ini.  If it wouldn't be too much trouble, it
> would be convenient if the mechanism that makes
> http://sources.redhat.com/cygwin/packages/ or
> http://sources.redhat.com/cygwin/packages/package_name would include a link
> to the setup.hint for the package.
>
> Thanks for your consideration,

Hear! Hear!
so, to be specific, it would be nice to be able to see
<http://sources.redhat.com/cygwin/packages/package_name/setup.hint>
and
<http://sources.redhat.com/cygwin/packages/package_name/cygwin.README>
(the latter possibly as content-type=text/html)
it might also make sense to include a link to the official package
homepage somethere...

and while you are at it, please fix the gmane link from
<http://news.gmane.org/?match=cygwin> to
<http://news.gmane.org/search.php?match=cygwin>

thanks

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