Question about gcc-mingw package renaming

Christopher Faylor cgf@redhat.com
Wed Oct 22 17:54:00 GMT 2003


On Wed, Oct 22, 2003 at 12:52:38PM -0400, Nicholas Wourms wrote:
>cgf@redhat.com wrote:
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>>See above.  I think that's an "it depends".  If I was looking for gcc
>>and knew about mingw, I might expect to find a gcc-mingw package.
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>No argument here.  But along the same lines, mingw-zib should probably 
>be changed to zlib-mingw.

But this is slightly different.  mingw-zlib is a *mingw* package not a
cygwin package.  So, the mingw should take precedence, IMO.

cgf



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