Adding packages (was: mkfs.jffs2 support in CYGWIN)

[Andy Koppe]

Larry Hall:
> Adding a link to <http://cygwin.com/setup.exe> shouldn't be allot of work
> and may help if the menu was properly named.

Good idea. I'll throw a name into the ring: "Cygwin package manager".

> Beyond that requires significant changes to 'setup.exe'

What would be needed beyond the packaging? I guess one problem is that
setup.exe couldn't update itself; could it rely on the "do it at next
reboot" solution instead?

> which would require some volunteer effort to make it happen.

Don't think I've got spare cycles to commit, unfortunately.

cgf:
> I've actually been trying to make setup.exe more usable from the command
> line so that it could be used as an update client like "yum" or "apt-get".

I think that's well worth doing, since many people do prefer that
approach. The big Linux distributions all seem to have ended up
supporting both the CLI and GUI approaches though, even if they
originally preferred one or the other.

Andy

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