Cygwin package management

[Jan Nieuwenhuizen]

Michel Van den Bergh writes:

> I am sorry for being ignorant but setup.exe is a GUI program isn't it?
> I was looking for a simple command line tool like rpm that is
> executable from a script.

Cygwin package management is quite simple, it's just setup.ini with
dependencies pointing to tarballs, and an installed file database. I
hacked a simple python script to query isnstalled packages and handle
dependencies

    http://lilypond.org/~janneke/software/cyg-apt

Jan.

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