FW: Compiling dpkg

[Dave Korn]

On 21 September 2006 03:02, Christopher Faylor wrote:

> On Wed, Sep 20, 2006 at 06:56:00PM -0700, Brian Dessent wrote:
>> Dave Korn wrote:
>>> However, whether dpkg will actually do anything useful for you is
>>> another question.  Debian packages don't work on cygwin and cygwin
>>> packages aren't issued in debian format...
>> 
>> Sigh.
>> 
>> He seems to be resolute in his goal to get dpkg/dselect to do something
>> useful under Cygwin even though it's been pointed out to him numerous
>> times that it cannot possibly.
>> 
>> http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2006-07/msg00492.html
>> http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2006-07/msg00499.html
>> 
>> So, can we please remove dpkg now from the distro?
> 
> Yep.  Done.  I've completely removed it.
> 
> Now who wants to tell him?  :-)
> 
> cgf


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    cheers,
      DaveK
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