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Re: units: update, FHS compliance


On 18/01/2010 12:59, John Morrison wrote:
I originally did the units package,

Oops, misread the maintainer list. Sorry about that.


> but, free time being what it isn't I've not really been tracking.
>
I have however noticed that you have units in your cygports; would it be a
terrible imposition of me to ask you to move it into the main cygwin
release?

I wouldn't mind doing so on a one-time basis, but I'm not really looking to take over the package; as you note, I've got plenty else to deal with. Do you plan to continue maintaining units in the future?


PS, I think that most of ports could be moved now; the only reason not to
that I could think of is disk space!  You really do package a lot of
packages!

Given the normal pace of the ITP process, moving *all* of Ports into the distro might take years. :-) But my short-term goal is remove the overlaps between the distro and Ports in order to simplify the installation procedure for Ports' users, see here for details:


http://article.gmane.org/gmane.os.cygwin.ports.general/736


Yaakov


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