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Re: Why the rash of people bypassing setup.exe to install?


At 01:26 PM 2/14/2003 -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>So, that experiment was a bad idea.  I turned off access again.  Yet, I
>still have the feeling that many people are downloading packages
>directly (from mirrors I suppose) and then we get to experience the
>maddening "I downloaded foo and it gives me an error about missing bar.
>What in the world could possibly be the problem????"

They are using apt-get to install Cygwin.  :-)
[ wishful thinking ]

Imagine installing, upgrading, and managing a bunch of OpenSource Software
(not just Cygwin) on a Windows machine with 'apt-get.'

Regards,
- Robert


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