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Re: Cygwin Statistics and curiosity
- From: Achim Gratz <Stromeko at nexgo dot de>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2019 21:31:24 +0100
- Subject: Re: Cygwin Statistics and curiosity
- References: <86acdcb9-9067-0f55-2543-6d100aaa7cae@gmail.com> <CAAD4mYgnuRwavk=hhr8mk7yWSNDAT5Q6h9kPO3uMwWu-asQtwQ@mail.gmail.com> <CAOTD34Z9doPr1wcZRy9uc7jauZf=nVJfmMNO9e2gbLvzEqKZCw@mail.gmail.com>
E. Madison Bray writes:
> I have often wondered why apt-cyg [1] hasn't been adopted fully by
> Cygwin as one of the default packages (in fact I'm not sure if there
> even is an actual cygwin package for apt-cyg), aside from the fact
> that it's not formally maintained as part of the cygwin ecosystem.
> Maybe it should be.
For starters, apt-cyg and the handful of purported alternatives will
break your installation in subtle and not-so subtle ways. None of them
handle all postinstall actions correctly and all of them will fall over
if locked in-use files have to be altered or replaced.
Regards,
Achim.
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