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Re: setup.exe sucks

Christopher Faylor wrote:

I believe that it was always Robert's intention to work towards the use
of a true package manager someday.  That time is now.  I can't take it
anymore.

Perhaps it's time to begin work on a native port of rpm.exe -- but to avoid any "where exactly IS /var/lib/rpm before cygwin is even installed" problems, maybe winrpm.exe should store ALL of its stuff in HKCU somewhere. /usr/lib/rpm/* and all.

And the installation database.

Once that's done, just like the console version of setup.exe preceded the GUI one, then we could talk about using a scripting language/GUI toolkit to drive the rpm backend...

Just a thought. Using a native port of dpkg would work, too.

--
Chuck

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