[ITP] Questions

Christopher Faylor cgf-no-personal-reply-please@cygwin.com
Fri Nov 18 15:05:00 GMT 2005


On Fri, Nov 18, 2005 at 03:14:59PM +0100, Tim O'Callaghan wrote:
>I was thinking about the current distro method, its probably a stupid
>question, but i was wondering why don't you support, or have tools to
>convert rpm/dpkg type build packages?  Cygwin seems to have native rpm
>& dpkg tools and most source packages have a 'dist' type target...

There's no mystery here.  We're all just mean SOBs who like to make
things as hard as possible for people.  What other reason could there be
for the lack of existence of something in a free software project?

cgf



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