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Date: Fri, 14 May 2010 09:12:04 -0600
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Subject: Re: Anyone interrested in a package manager?
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Lookat http://code.google.com/p/cyg-apt/

On Fri 2010-05-14 06:23, Alexander T wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> I've read the mailing lists and found some posts back in 2003 talking
> about porting apt to cygwin.
> 
> I'm going crazy needing to use the installer every time I forgot to
> install a program, and also dealing with version upgrades and
> conflicting versions. The installer.exe is also clunky when it comes
> to selecting in batch etc.
> 
> It would also be great to make your own repos and update cygwin
> locally from the repo, like the setup.exe 'local install' does, but
> then command-line based.
> 
> So I'm wondering if there are any news on this front.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Alexander
> 
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