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Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] TEST RELEASE: Cygwin 1.7.34-002


Corinna Vinschen wrote:
How nice.  We have all the work and they simple grab it and don't give
anything back to their upstream project.

...the *Dark* side of free (GPL?) software... I guess..

In any case, you could always *grab* their "pacman" manager.. Besides being very appealing, it would avoid the long thread [*] on cygwin-apps list..

Why what aims to be a "..Linux feeling - on Windows" should have a "package manager" (setup.exe :( ) which install deps more o less silently... apt-get, yum, pacman, port (on OSX) (and, I sure, others) always warn the user about which packages are to be installed..

Unless you adopt a 'true' package manager, I would not change the current behavior of setup.exe..


Ciao,
 Angelo.

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