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Subject: Re: patches to vendor source trees - discussion
From: Robert Collins <robert DOT collins AT itdomain DOT com DOT au>
To: Corinna Vinschen <cygwin-apps AT cygwin DOT com>
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Date: 04 Nov 2001 20:58:11 +1100
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On Sun, 2001-11-04 at 20:47, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 04, 2001 at 12:39:51AM -0500, Charles Wilson wrote:

> Guys,
> 
> I would prefer to keep it simple.  And since we already have seen
> implementations of rpm for Cygwin (regardless of the "replace
> DLL/EXE while running" problem) I would propose the rpm way which
> would easily fit in our current packaging scheme.
> 

I've been trying to keep well away from the rpm vs deb issue. I've not
been suggesting that setup be altered *at all*.

And yes, I think that cygwin's setup.exe should be quite limited in
scope for installation of source.

Rob