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Re: patches to vendor source trees - discussion
On Sun, 2001-11-04 at 20:47, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 04, 2001 at 12:39:51AM -0500, Charles Wilson wrote:
> Guys,
>
> I would prefer to keep it simple. And since we already have seen
> implementations of rpm for Cygwin (regardless of the "replace
> DLL/EXE while running" problem) I would propose the rpm way which
> would easily fit in our current packaging scheme.
>
I've been trying to keep well away from the rpm vs deb issue. I've not
been suggesting that setup be altered *at all*.
And yes, I think that cygwin's setup.exe should be quite limited in
scope for installation of source.
Rob