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Re: ITP: leafnode
- From: Joshua Daniel Franklin <joshuadfranklin at yahoo dot com>
- To: cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com
- Date: Fri, 2 Apr 2004 14:15:59 -0800 (PST)
- Subject: 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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