The version of setup.exe I propose must be a bit old, isn't it ? If there's
a real interest, I'm OK to care about the latest version, but will poeple
really use RPM under Cygwin ?
Good point.
The real benefit to porting RPM or apt-get or whatever to Windows is as a possible replacement for the current installation system (if anyone considers RPM, and its associated GUIs, an improvement, that is).
For that, however, these programs need to be *native Windows binaries* (i.e. no cygwin layer underneath), or you'd have a chicken-and-egg problem doing a first-time installation (or any time you updated cygwin itself).
So for the moment, these ports are mainly a curiosity.
Perhaps one future idea may be for the cygwin installations can be split up into the Base group installed by the current setup, and RPM/apt-get or whatever to manage the rest?
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