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Re: dselect - formally Re: Running as root
On Tue, Jul 18, 2006 at 12:19:58AM +0100, Max Bowsher wrote:
>Christopher Faylor wrote:
>>On Mon, Jul 17, 2006 at 09:49:02PM +1000, Stephen Grant Brown wrote:
>>>I am unable to use dselect for the inspection of packages in the Debian
>>>distribution.
>>
>>Ok. Unless someone steps forward who is willing to maintain dpkg, it
>>will be removed from the distribution in a few days.
>
>Is there any useful functionality actually provided by having dpkg for
>Cygwin? If there is I'll have a go, but if it's just a toy that
>happens to compile, but you can't actually do anything useful with, I
>don't see the point.
Um. That would be the kind of thing that a maintainer would know the
answer to wouldn't it?
cgf
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