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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: <cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com>,<cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Sat, 20 Apr 2002 09:21:01 +1000
- Subject: RE: [ANNOUNCEMENT] cygwin/xfree86 setup.exe packages available for comments and testing
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Christopher Faylor [mailto:cgf@redhat.com]
> Sent: Saturday, April 20, 2002 8:48 AM
> >I didn't quite gather from the earlier discussions whether
> we can have
> >a source package seperate from any binary packages. i.e., could we
> >have XFree86-full-src without an associated binary package?
> Or would
> >we have to make XFree86-base-src the package that contained the full
> >source archive.
>
> Hmm. Yes. I think this would work. That might be the best solution.
>
> In fact, it may be a nice trend setter.
I think setup.exe needs a little work before doing this, but it's a good
direction. (i.e. setup.exe should have a view to only show src packages,
and a view to only show binaries - to avoid confusing folk). (Think
apt-get source vs apt-get install).
Rob