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Re: simplifying rebaseall


On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 08:01:23PM +0200, Al wrote:
> > I guess for many people cygwin is their first contact with a *NIX like
> > environment, but given your previous knowledge in Linux, it could also
> > have been and option to inspect the package contents:
> >
> > cygcheck -l rebase
> 
> It's not only that many people have in Cygwin their first contact with
> the *NIX world. There is always a point when you have your first
> contact with a new Distro. "cygcheck" will be self-evident for every
> Cygwin insider, but it is foreign for every newcomer, even with 30
> years *NIX experience. I see it here the first time.

That's true. I used cygwin for a year or so before even noticing
cygcheck was there :) I think I started using it after reading
http://cygwin.com/problems.html (cygcheck -s -v -r > cygcheck.out)
But, well, it's more or less the same when you switch from apt/deb to yum/rpm.


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