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Subject:	RE: info: single install xfree86 + minimal cygwin?
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Date:	Wed, 10 Apr 2002 11:00:32 +1000
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From:	"Robert Collins" <robert DOT collins AT itdomain DOT com DOT au>
To:	"Ian Burrell" <iburrell AT znark DOT com>
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ian Burrell [mailto:iburrell AT znark DOT com] 
> Sent: Wednesday, April 10, 2002 10:57 AM
> That is a list of subdirectories. But it won't work since the each 
> package needs its own subdirectory. A better hiearchy would use the 
> components from the package names. Hopefully, multiple levels of 
> subdirectories will work.
> 
> xfree:
>    base:
...
>    xvfb:
>      xfree-xvfb-4.2.0.tar.bz2

As a directory layout, that should be fine.
 
> > 
> > Those refinements can be made at any point - there's no 
> need to have it
> > perfect on first release. Setup.exe is quite capable of 
> handling files
> > moving from one package to another now.
> > 
> 
> They were simple changes to the script I wrote to repackage the 
> distributed archives. I'll try to write proper setup.hint 
> files for all 
> the packages.

Cool.

Rob

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