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Re: Package file lists archive
- From: Yaakov Selkowitz <yselkowitz at cygwin dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Sun, 03 Aug 2014 22:00:27 -0500
- Subject: Re: Package file lists archive
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On Sun, 2014-08-03 at 16:07 -0500, Steven Penny wrote:
> In June I presented the idea of a "Package file lists archive" and was met with
> this
>
> > I understand how the package generation would have to work and don't see a
> > major benefit to introducing a package list file given the amount of work and
> > the fact that I would have to do the work.
>
> http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2014-06/msg00276.html
>
> However Christopher has since left the project
Please don't assume that this means that we're ready to automatically
rehash every decision he made over the last however-many years.
> I would like to revisit this issue. I would like to see if I can help in any way
> to make this happen. My work on "apt-cyg" has been hindered by the issue with
> "cygcheck --package-query"
package_grep.cgi could probably use some optimization; PTC.
Yaakov
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