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Re: setup.exe sucks


On Tue, Dec 07, 2004 at 03:48:17PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 07, 2004 at 03:37:36PM -0500, Charles Wilson wrote:
> >Christopher Faylor wrote:
> >>I believe that it was always Robert's intention to work towards the use
> >>of a true package manager someday.  That time is now.  I can't take it
> >>anymore.
> >
> >Perhaps it's time to begin work on a native port of rpm.exe -- but to
> >avoid any "where exactly IS /var/lib/rpm before cygwin is even
> >installed" problems, maybe winrpm.exe should store ALL of its stuff in
> >HKCU somewhere.  /usr/lib/rpm/* and all.
> 
> I don't think you need a native version of rpm any more than you need a
> MS_DOS version of rpm when you're installing linux.  You do have to have
> something early on that bootstraps what you need, like setup.exe does
> now, but it could always install the cygwin first before it does
> anything.

... or you could use statically linked rpm.

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