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Re: And we have a xfree cygwin package.. (What are they called?)
- From: Christopher Faylor <cgf at redhat dot com>
- To: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com, cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com
- Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2002 00:23:44 -0500
- Subject: Re: And we have a xfree cygwin package.. (What are they called?)
- References: <FC169E059D1A0442A04C40F86D9BA760014C76@itdomain003.itdomain.net.au>
- Reply-to: cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com
On Wed, Mar 20, 2002 at 04:13:06PM +1100, Robert Collins wrote:
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>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Christopher Faylor [mailto:cgf@redhat.com]
>> Sent: Wednesday, March 20, 2002 3:40 PM
>> To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com
>> Cc: cygwin-apps@cygwin.com
>> Subject: Re: And we have a xfree cygwin package.. (What are
>> they called?)
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Mar 19, 2002 at 11:27:18PM -0500, Harold Hunt wrote:
>> >Okay, I mirrored the files:
>> >http://www.msu.edu/~huntharo/xbase/xbase-4.2.0-1.tar.bz2
>> >http://www.msu.edu/~huntharo/xbase/setup.hint
>> >http://www.msu.edu/~huntharo/xbase/md5.sum
>..
>> I assume that these are just for people to play with but that
>> will require a little bit of customization of local
>> setup.ini's if you want to do anything useful.
>
>Harold...
>If I can be so bold, can I suggest that you add a setup.ini to the
>collection of files - just include the setup.hint contents (see
>http://www.cygwin.com/setup.html for the setup.ini format.
I don't see any reason to delay adopting XFree86 into the main setup.
So, lets not worry about customizing anything or offering alternate
setup.ini's.
cgf