E. Madison Bray writes: > I have often wondered why apt-cyg [1] hasn't been adopted fully by > Cygwin as one of the default packages (in fact I'm not sure if there > even is an actual cygwin package for apt-cyg), aside from the fact > that it's not formally maintained as part of the cygwin ecosystem. > Maybe it should be.
For starters, apt-cyg and the handful of purported alternatives will break your installation in subtle and not-so subtle ways. None of them handle all postinstall actions correctly and all of them will fall over if locked in-use files have to be altered or replaced. Regards, Achim. -- +<[Q+ Matrix-12 WAVE#46+305 Neuron microQkb Andromeda XTk Blofeld]>+ SD adaptation for Waldorf microQ V2.22R2: http://Synth.Stromeko.net/Downloads.html#WaldorfSDada -- 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
