On Wed, Sep 20, 2006 at 06:56:00PM -0700, Brian Dessent wrote: >Dave Korn wrote: >>However, whether dpkg will actually do anything useful for you is >>another question. Debian packages don't work on cygwin and cygwin >>packages aren't issued in debian format... > >Sigh. > >He seems to be resolute in his goal to get dpkg/dselect to do something >useful under Cygwin even though it's been pointed out to him numerous >times that it cannot possibly. > >http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2006-07/msg00492.html >http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2006-07/msg00499.html > >So, can we please remove dpkg now from the distro?
Yep. Done. I've completely removed it. Now who wants to tell him? :-) cgf