From: sos AT prospect DOT com DOT ru (Sergey Okhapkin) Subject: RE: cygwin32-developers problems? 11 Mar 1998 00:00:42 -0800 Message-ID: <01BD4CD9.A272D210.cygnus.cygwin32.developers@gater.krystalbank.msk.ru> Cc: "cygwin32-developers AT cygnus DOT com" Tom Tromey wrote: > Christopher> You could modify the installation procedure so that there > Christopher> were three (or more?) packages. A "base" package, a > Christopher> "developers" package, a "users" package. This is nearly > Christopher> what is done now, but you could also allow click and > Christopher> choose installation of specific packages. > > Why stop there? > Why not just use packages, like Debian or Red Hat? > In fact, isn't there already some initiative to do something like this > (host Debian on top of Cygwin)? > If so, you have to rewrite top level makefile to support packaging. The idea seems good to me. -- Sergey Okhapkin Moscow, Russia Looking for a job