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Re: ITP: leafnode


--- Christopher Faylor <cgf-no-personal-reply-please@cygwin.com> wrote:
> >>Ok, so I vote "no" on this package given the above restriction.
> >
> >Umm, why?  Not that I'm voting for it, but as long as the package
> >detects that it's not running on NTFS and bails out gracefully, it
> >should be fine.  We have other NT-only packages in the distro (e.g.,
> >editrights).
> 
> There's a difference between a package that is designed for NT and a
> general-purpose package that doesn't work on [non-]NT.

I don't particularly care in this situation, but that sounds like
the situation for passwd--a general-purpose utility that doesn't work
on non-NT systems. 

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