new policy for packages

Corinna Vinschen vinschen@redhat.com
Fri Jan 11 02:53:00 GMT 2002


On Fri, Jan 11, 2002 at 04:43:28AM -0600, Gary R. Van Sickle wrote:
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: cygwin-apps-owner@cygwin.com
> > [mailto:cygwin-apps-owner@cygwin.com]On Behalf Of Robert Collins
> > 
> > I want to suggest that the following become policy:
> > 
> > No new packages are accepted that require non-packaged prerequisites.
> > 
> > i.e. using rpm which was raised on cygwin@ recently,
> > until db 3.2 is packaged and maintained by 'someone', rpm is not
> > acceptable as a package.
> > 
> > Thoughts?
> 
> I don't know how things could work any other way, in cases such as this anyway.

postgreSQL needs cygipc.

Luckily it's not a *new* packahge :)

Corinna

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