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Re: Compiling dpkg
- From: Brian Dessent <brian at dessent dot net>
- To: 'Cygwin Mailing List' <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Cc: cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com
- Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2006 18:56:00 -0700
- Subject: Re: Compiling dpkg
- References: <02f801c6dd1c$05f5b790$a501a8c0@CAM.ARTIMI.COM>
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?
Brian