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Re: cygwin-pkg-maint maintance
- From: Marco Atzeri <marco dot atzeri at gmail dot com>
- To: cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com
- Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2014 23:29:35 +0200
- Subject: Re: cygwin-pkg-maint maintance
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On 14/08/2014 22:51, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
On Aug 14 22:28, Marco Atzeri wrote:
The build methods is maintainer choice.
I use cygport but I don't see a reason to mandate it.
Tiny correction: New packages should use cygport. We should really all
use the same packaging system. After all, you don't use rpm files on
Debian or dpkg files on Fedora.
"should" is not "must". ;-)
Of course it is the preferred and major way and
the alternatives are not so efficient.
Corinna
Marco