cygwin setup

Tue Dec 26 15:12:00 GMT 2000

> hopefully this doesnt turn out to be a silly question, but is the source
> for the setup utility available?

Yes. Get the cygwin sources, and it's in src/winsup/cinstall.
> also, is there any interest to use (real) packages in cygwin?

There was, until we added .tar.gz support to setup :-)
Seriously, people have talked about RPM, but until someone decides to
actually *do* something, tarballs remain the standard "package" format
for Cygwin.
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