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From: "Donovan Baarda" <abo AT minkirri DOT apana DOT org DOT au>
To: "Jeremy C. Reed" <reed AT reedmedia DOT net>, <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
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Subject: Re: Cygwin package management
Date: Tue, 28 Dec 2004 16:59:27 +1100
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G'day,

From: "Jeremy C. Reed" <reed AT reedmedia DOT net>
[...]
> I'd like to suggest that you all look at www.pkgsrc.org. It is a
> cross-platform packaging system. I am trying to get it to work under
> Cygwin (and it already works under Interix and maybe other Unix flavours).

Why use pkgsrc instead of dpkg, which already has a cygwin package? What
does pkgsrc have that dpkg doesn't? Is whatever benefits it has enough to
outweigh the smaller user/support base?

BTW, is anyone actually using dpkg in cygwin for anything? I can't see a
cygwin apt, and without cygwin ported debs in an apt repository, I can't see
it being much use...

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