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Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2001 20:54:12 -0500
From: Christopher Faylor <cgf AT redhat DOT com>
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Subject: Re: -src package standard: proposal #5 and #5a
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On Wed, Nov 21, 2001 at 12:48:29PM +1100, Robert Collins wrote:
>I like the concepts you've outlined, but I think it's much better to
>leverage the existing batch style tools for either rpm or debs that
>provide the same capabilities. Which means either convert those tools to
>work with cygwin packages, or get setup to work with those tools :}.
>
>Sigh.

Heavy is the burden of the setup.exe maintainer...

Thank you Robert for all of your hard work and for your continued
patient sheparding of this project.

cgf