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Re: setup wishes -- any volunteers
On Fri, Mar 23, 2001 at 09:27:08AM +1100, Robert Collins wrote:
>I know this has been said before, but what about leveraging of an
>existing packaging format - dpkg has all the capabilities you cite, and
>they had a win32 project in place at one time. I'mm willing to polish my
>elbows this weekend and see if I can make something work : but first I
>would like a little buy-in that this is a good route to take.
This gives you dependencies but I don't see that it provides you with
anything else.
You'd have to build a non-cygwin version of rpm to handle all of this.
I don't know how feasible that would be.
It wouldn't be politically expedient for me to say no to RPM, of course.
If you can come up with a plan to use it, I'd be interested.
I think this is the way I answered the last time this question was
raised. At least I hope I did.
cgf