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RE: [ANNOUNCEMENT] cygwin/xfree86 setup.exe packages available for comments and testing
- From: "Robert Collins" <robert dot collins at itdomain dot com dot au>
- To: "Charles Wilson" <cwilson at ece dot gatech dot edu>
- Cc: <cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com>,<cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Sun, 21 Apr 2002 16:47:09 +1000
- Subject: RE: [ANNOUNCEMENT] cygwin/xfree86 setup.exe packages available for comments and testing
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Charles Wilson [mailto:cwilson@ece.gatech.edu]
> Sent: Sunday, April 21, 2002 8:33 AM
>if you select the source for more than one of [bob|bobx|boby], then it
>is downloaded only once (good) but is unpacked three times. This isn't
>a terrible thing, but it is a waste of effort....
This won't change anytime soon. Long term we'll have the concept of a
source package - as opposed to a src attribute of an existing package.
This will require setup.ini changes to represent properly, so I want all
the kinks out first...
Rob