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RE: new policy for packages
- From: "Gary R. Van Sickle" <g dot r dot vansickle at worldnet dot att dot net>
- To: <cygwin-apps at sources dot redhat dot com>
- Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2002 04:43:28 -0600
- Subject: RE: new policy for packages
> -----Original Message-----
> From: cygwin-apps-owner@cygwin.com
> [mailto:cygwin-apps-owner@cygwin.com]On Behalf Of Robert Collins
>
> I want to suggest that the following become policy:
>
> No new packages are accepted that require non-packaged prerequisites.
>
> i.e. using rpm which was raised on cygwin@ recently,
> until db 3.2 is packaged and maintained by 'someone', rpm is not
> acceptable as a package.
>
> Thoughts?
I don't know how things could work any other way, in cases such as this anyway.
--
Gary R. Van Sickle
Brewer. Patriot.