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RE: "local install"?
- From: "Robert Collins" <robert dot collins at itdomain dot com dot au>
- To: "Charles Wilson" <cwilson at ece dot gatech dot edu>,"Randall R Schulz" <rrschulz at cris dot com>
- Cc: "Markus Hoenicka" <Markus dot Hoenicka at uth dot tmc dot edu>,<cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Sat, 2 Mar 2002 11:04:31 +1100
- Subject: RE: "local install"?
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Charles Wilson [mailto:cwilson@ece.gatech.edu]
> Perhaps the Emacs folks (NOT XEmacs -- they already have a different
> solution) will create a cygwin-setup dirtree once their
> cygwin port is
> complete. Perhaps folks who have ported a package and want
> to make it
> available, but do NOT want to accept the maintainership
> responsibilities
> that go with *official* package inclusion, will create
> cygwin-setup-compatible distribution sites with custom setup.ini's.
> These are all great things, and are reason enough for the multi-site
> selection capability -- regardless of whether YOU actually use that
> particular feature.
Yes - federation is good. RPM and .deb achieved this a long time ago...
And now we do to :].
Rob
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