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Subject: RE: info: single install xfree86 + minimal cygwin?
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Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2002 12:23:16 +1000
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Charles Wilson [mailto:cwilson AT ece DOT gatech DOT edu] 
> Sent: Wednesday, April 10, 2002 12:19 PM

> I don't think it's that big a deal to require cygwin packages 
> to follow 
> a parseable naming scheme; ours is pretty lenient...when it 
> fails, it's 
> not a terrible imposition to either change a '-' to a '_', or 
> swap some 
> digits and alphabetics within a -XXXX- word.

And package file names are not directly used by humans 99% of the time.
That's what setup + cygcheck + upset are for.

Rob