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Date: Wed, 04 May 2005 03:04:24 -0400
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Jani Tiainen wrote:
> 
> Why to reinvent wheel..?
> 
> You could use existing systems, like Debian package-system (deb), 
> RPM-system like Fedora Core/RedHat, or Gentoo's Emerge.

I also seem to recall someone using apt-get in Cygwin-space at one time, 
but Google doesn't want to be my friend today.

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