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Re: Install methods
- From: "Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" <lhall at rfk dot com>
- To: "John Vincent" <jpv50 at hotmail dot com>, cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Wed, 29 May 2002 13:08:43 -0400
- Subject: Re: Install methods
At 11:46 AM 5/29/2002, John Vincent wrote:
>Hi,
>
>Since I see that RPM has been ported to cygwin,
>it might be nice to have a tarball (or a setup.exe
>package) that installed RPM and all it's dependencies,
>and then you could use RPM to install whatever other
>cygwin packages you wanted.
>
>Not quite as user-friendly as a GUI interface, but a
>very flexible alternative.
>
>Just a suggestion.
Thanks. As it turns out, we've heard that one before too. Like other
package suggestions, this one is just waiting for a maintainer.
Larry Hall lhall@rfk.com
RFK Partners, Inc. http://www.rfk.com
838 Washington Street (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office
Holliston, MA 01746 (508) 893-9889 - FAX
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