Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Message-ID: <419550CF.1080601@familiehaase.de> Date: Sat, 13 Nov 2004 01:09:51 +0100 From: "Gerrit P. Haase" Organization: Esse keine toten Tiere User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; WinNT4.0; de-AT; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040910 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: packages that should be in the cygwin distribution but aren't References: <20041019172254 DOT GA23401 AT trixie DOT casa DOT cgf DOT cx> <4194D9A3 DOT 7060409 AT familiehaase DOT de> <20041112171711 DOT GA28402 AT trixie DOT casa DOT cgf DOT cx> <41953E2B DOT 9040801 AT familiehaase DOT de> <20041112230410 DOT GB31975 AT trixie DOT casa DOT cgf DOT cx> In-Reply-To: <20041112230410.GB31975@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Fri, Nov 12, 2004 at 11:50:19PM +0100, Gerrit P. Haase wrote: > >>Maybe these are not standard packages for administrators, but since you >>asked for development packages, these all are basic libraries or >>compilers for developers. > > And, yet, I'm a developer, and I don't have one of those libraries on my > system. Then you don't use jed or slrn which are based on slang. libedit is a readline replacement and probably everybody has it on his box linked statically into some executable, eg. mysql client. > I am looking for standard, frequently used linux packages that are > missing from the cygwin distribution. You certainly can't put "adns" in > the same classification as bind. Yep, since adns is just a client and requires bind or another resolver. > I could have easily gone to the Debian web site and pulled down a list > of hundreds of packages that are not in Cygwin. My intent was to see > what people thought was obviously missing. > > Do you actually use adns frequently? Somehow I suspect that you don't. Well, not daily, but it works and I use it occasionally, maybe as often as I would use dig: $ adnshost cygwin.com cygwin.com A INET 12.107.209.250 $ adnshost -tmx cygwin.com cygwin.com MX 10 sourceware.org ok 0 ok "OK" ( INET 12.107.209.250 ) I like this more than ahost from ares which is of course just an example how to use ares and not a full blown command line interface to the library: $ ahost cygwin.com cygwin.com 12.107.209.250 BTW, ares (now c-ares) is an integral part of curl and probably you use it every day. Anyway, I think I got your point. I was really missing top, but today I learned that it is already part of the distribution. Do we have the at command? smartmontools? ntfs-progs? some watchdog? Gerrit -- =^..^= -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/