Christopher Faylor wrote:
On Fri, Nov 12, 2004 at 11:50:19PM +0100, Gerrit P. Haase wrote:
Maybe these are not standard packages for administrators, but since you asked for development packages, these all are basic libraries or compilers for developers.
And, yet, I'm a developer, and I don't have one of those libraries on my system.
Then you don't use jed or slrn which are based on slang.
libedit is a readline replacement and probably everybody has it on his box linked statically into some executable, eg. mysql client.
I am looking for standard, frequently used linux packages that are missing from the cygwin distribution. You certainly can't put "adns" in the same classification as bind.
Yep, since adns is just a client and requires bind or another resolver.
I could have easily gone to the Debian web site and pulled down a list of hundreds of packages that are not in Cygwin. My intent was to see what people thought was obviously missing.
Do you actually use adns frequently? Somehow I suspect that you don't.
Well, not daily, but it works and I use it occasionally, maybe as often as I would use dig:
$ adnshost cygwin.com
cygwin.com A INET 12.107.209.250
$ adnshost -tmx cygwin.com
cygwin.com MX 10 sourceware.org ok 0 ok "OK" ( INET 12.107.209.250 )
I like this more than ahost from ares which is of course just an example how to use ares and not a full blown command line interface to the library:
$ ahost cygwin.com
cygwin.com 12.107.209.250
BTW, ares (now c-ares) is an integral part of curl and probably you use it every day.
Anyway, I think I got your point. I was really missing top, but today I learned that it is already part of the distribution.
Do we have the at command? smartmontools? ntfs-progs? some watchdog?
Gerrit -- =^..^=
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