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FW: Compiling dpkg
- From: "Dave Korn" <dave dot korn at artimi dot com>
- To: "Thread TITTTL'd!" <cygwin-talk at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2006 19:42:01 +0100
- Subject: FW: Compiling dpkg
- Reply-to: The Cygwin-Talk Maiming List <cygwin-talk at cygwin dot com>
On 21 September 2006 03:02, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 20, 2006 at 06:56:00PM -0700, Brian Dessent wrote:
>> Dave Korn wrote:
>>> However, whether dpkg will actually do anything useful for you is
>>> another question. Debian packages don't work on cygwin and cygwin
>>> packages aren't issued in debian format...
>>
>> Sigh.
>>
>> He seems to be resolute in his goal to get dpkg/dselect to do something
>> useful under Cygwin even though it's been pointed out to him numerous
>> times that it cannot possibly.
>>
>> http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2006-07/msg00492.html
>> http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2006-07/msg00499.html
>>
>> So, can we please remove dpkg now from the distro?
>
> Yep. Done. I've completely removed it.
>
> Now who wants to tell him? :-)
>
> cgf
WJM of the week!
cheers,
DaveK
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