setup and "provides:" on third party repository

[Marco Atzeri]

On 06.01.2022 12:15, Achim Gratz wrote:
> Marco Atzeri writes:
>> one think that I noted recently is that setup is not storing the
>> "provides:" information on the installation.
> 
> There's no place for it to store information about virtual packages.

I see no reason to not use

   /etc/setup/installed.db

as for the normal packages

>> It is a bit annoying, can you put in the TODO list ?
> 
> I think the details should be discussed on cygwin-apps.

I leave to Jon

> 
> Regards,
> Achim.

Regards
Marco