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| From: | Jean-Michel POURE <jm DOT poure AT freesurf DOT fr> |
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| Subject: | Re: RPM 4 under cygwin |
| Date: | Thu, 20 Dec 2001 09:44:25 +0100 |
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> Since Larry didn't touch this, I'll respond. Cygwin packages can be unpacked/interpreted/understood by a NON cygwin program (setup.exe is a native windows app). ALL ports of RPM that I have seen require cygwin -- which means they cannot easily be used to install cygwin itself on a virgin system. This is a serious drawback. This clearly is a demonstration that cygwin would benefit from a static compilation option. I know this is not an issue for you all, but ... Coming back to RPM, this would be so nice to issue this command: rpm --rebuild --target=cygwin package_name.rpms to compile any existing apckage for Cygwin. There are 100 times more Linux developpers than $Windows developpers. Why to reinvent the wheel with another installation format? Do you really think you can create a universal format including DEB and RPM? Then you need to produce more work than the creators of these formats. This is such a difficult project... Best regards, Jean-Michel POURE -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
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