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From: Brian Dessent <brian AT dessent DOT net>
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Dave Korn wrote:

>   However, whether dpkg will actually do anything useful for you is another
> question.  Debian packages don't work on cygwin and cygwin packages aren't
> issued in debian format...

Sigh.

He seems to be resolute in his goal to get dpkg/dselect to do something
useful under Cygwin even though it's been pointed out to him numerous
times that it cannot possibly.

http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2006-07/msg00492.html
http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2006-07/msg00499.html

So, can we please remove dpkg now from the distro?

Brian

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