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Re: Cannot find the librtl3 package even after reading suggestions in FAQ and posts!
On Thu, May 12, 2005 at 09:13:01PM +0200, Gerrit P. Haase wrote:
>Christopher Faylor wrote:
>
>>On Thu, May 12, 2005 at 09:01:17PM +0200, Gerrit P. Haase wrote:
>>
>>>David_Fox@3com.com wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>I am assuming that there should be a release\libintl3 with a
>>>>libintl3/libintl3-0.14.1-1 file in it. Shouldn't there? If not, why
>>>>doesn't setup show it when I switch it to FULL mode?
>>>
>>>Since libintl is part of gettext there is no dir release/libintl3 but
>>>the dir release/gettext/libintl3.
>>
>>
>>This was also another thing which was implicit in my message but there
>>is no reason to anyone to have to know that. The only thing a user has
>>to know is "run setup.exe to install a package". Messing around with
>>mirrors and directories isn't really a good idea unless you are familiar
>>with the "complexities" of cygwin package management.
>
>What is so complex with:
>
>wget -r -N ftp://mirror.server.here/pub/sourceware/cygwin/
>
>and use setup to install from the local repository then?
Well, you'd be copying quite a bit of extra stuff if you did that, which
kind of proves my point. You could just use setup.exe to download what
you needed, which would just retrieve what you needed.
I don't see what this has to do with the matter at hand, however.
cgf
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