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RE: info: single install xfree86 + minimal cygwin?
- From: "Robert Collins" <robert dot collins at itdomain dot com dot au>
- To: "Charles Wilson" <cwilson at ece dot gatech dot edu>,"Ian Burrell" <iburrell at znark dot com>
- Cc: <cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com>,<cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2002 12:23:16 +1000
- Subject: RE: info: single install xfree86 + minimal cygwin?
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Charles Wilson [mailto:cwilson@ece.gatech.edu]
> Sent: Wednesday, April 10, 2002 12:19 PM
> I don't think it's that big a deal to require cygwin packages
> to follow
> a parseable naming scheme; ours is pretty lenient...when it
> fails, it's
> not a terrible imposition to either change a '-' to a '_', or
> swap some
> digits and alphabetics within a -XXXX- word.
And package file names are not directly used by humans 99% of the time.
That's what setup + cygcheck + upset are for.
Rob