On Mon, May 26, 2014 at 3:12 PM, Christopher Faylor wrote: > And, frankly, I think it's a bad idea to keep a monolithic list of > packages available for people to download anyway.
I would counter that Debian and others who use "apt-get" already do this, Example http://http.debian.net/debian/dists/wheezy/main/Contents-amd64.gz > This file maps each file available in the Debian GNU/Linux system to > the package from which it originates. It includes packages from the > DIST distribution for the ARCH architecture. > You can use this list to determine which package contains a specific > file, or whether or not a specific file is available. The list is > updated weekly, each architecture on a different day. so maybe you could voice your opinion to them as well. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
