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From: Achim Gratz <Stromeko AT nexgo DOT de>
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Subject: Re: Cygwin Statistics and curiosity
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Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2019 21:31:24 +0100
In-Reply-To: <CAOTD34Z9doPr1wcZRy9uc7jauZf=nVJfmMNO9e2gbLvzEqKZCw@mail.gmail.com>	(E. Madison Bray's message of "Fri, 11 Jan 2019 14:40:10 +0100")
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E. Madison Bray writes:
> I have often wondered why apt-cyg [1] hasn't been adopted fully by
> Cygwin as one of the default packages (in fact I'm not sure if there
> even is an actual cygwin package for apt-cyg), aside from the fact
> that it's not formally maintained as part of the cygwin ecosystem.
> Maybe it should be.

For starters, apt-cyg and the handful of purported alternatives will
break your installation in subtle and not-so subtle ways.  None of them
handle all postinstall actions correctly and all of them will fall over
if locked in-use files have to be altered or replaced.


Regards,
Achim.
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