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RE: [Fwd: Re: cygwin-apps Digest 2 Nov 2001 18:46:34 -0000 Issue 223]
- To: "Earnie Boyd" <earnie_boyd at yahoo dot com>
- Subject: RE: [Fwd: Re: cygwin-apps Digest 2 Nov 2001 18:46:34 -0000 Issue 223]
- From: "Robert Collins" <robert dot collins at itdomain dot com dot au>
- Date: Mon, 5 Nov 2001 10:10:55 +1100
- Cc: <cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Earnie Boyd [mailto:earnie_boyd@yahoo.com]
> Sent: Monday, November 05, 2001 4:11 AM
> To: Robert Collins
> Cc: cygwin-apps@cygwin.com
> Subject: Re: [Fwd: Re: cygwin-apps Digest 2 Nov 2001 18:46:34 -0000
> Issue 223]
>
>
> Robert Collins wrote:
> >
> > This is all coming from Earnie's 'base system' email in the
> archives.
> >
>
> Which may have contained more than a "base" system. In my
> suggestion I
> picked some trivial packages based on prior experience of
> "Why isn't foo
> included?".
Yes - exactly the point of referencing your list. It's based on what
people have *asked about* not just what we, today, remember folk wanting
:}.
Rob