Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Tue, Jul 18, 2006 at 12:19:58AM +0100, Max Bowsher wrote: >> Christopher Faylor wrote: >>> On Mon, Jul 17, 2006 at 09:49:02PM +1000, Stephen Grant Brown wrote:
>>>> I am unable to use dselect for the inspection of packages in the Debian >>>> distribution. >>> Ok. Unless someone steps forward who is willing to maintain dpkg, it >>> will be removed from the distribution in a few days. >> Is there any useful functionality actually provided by having dpkg for >> Cygwin? If there is I'll have a go, but if it's just a toy that >> happens to compile, but you can't actually do anything useful with, I >> don't see the point. > Um. That would be the kind of thing that a maintainer would know the > answer to wouldn't it? I know what the program _does_ - I just don't see how what it does can be useful, when no one is producing .deb format packages for Cygwin. (For that matter, the same argument applies to 'rpm' - it's present in the Cygwin archive, but can anyone actually use it for anything useful, since there are no .rpm format packages for Cygwin?) Max.
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