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On 18/01/2010 13:38, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> I think we could relax the ITP process if you wanted to do some bulk
> moves but I would hate to have anyone have to support so many packages.
> Even if I wasn't just concerned about your free time and sanity, I'd
> be worried what would happen if you left the project.

Precisely why I've hesitated to take on lots more packages within the 
distro.

> However, if you really want to take on the task of doing a bulk move
> we should talk about it in cygwin-apps.

I understand; we've done this before (Cygwin/X) and Corinna would like 
me to do another (DocBook, ~25 packages)[1], but beyond that, my current 
goal is only to remove the aformentioned overlaps[2] between the distro 
and Ports.


Yaakov

[1] http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2010-01/msg00247.html
[2] http://article.gmane.org/gmane.os.cygwin.ports.general/736
(Perhaps you could comment on the e2fsprogs issue raised there?)

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