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Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2000 14:46:11 -0500
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From: DJ Delorie <dj AT delorie DOT com>
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In-reply-to: <s1sk8jshuxh.fsf@jaist.ac.jp> (message from Kazuhiro Fujieda on
	26 Feb 2000 23:58:50 +0900)
Subject: Re: next net release preview
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> Neverthless, I hope that Cygnus/Red Hat defines definitely the
> reasonable policy about packages, such as the prefix directory,
> the host type name (i686-pc-cygwin32 or i686-pc-cygwin ?), and
> so on.

What's in the preview doesn't meet all the goals I'd like.  I'm
hoping that new packages would be:

	i686-pc-cygwin
	--prefix=/usr

The target was discussed in a past thread; I don't recall about the
prefix.