dselect - formally Re: Running as root

Tue Jul 18 15:10:00 GMT 2006

Christopher Faylor wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 18, 2006 at 12:19:58AM +0100, Max Bowsher wrote:
>> Christopher Faylor wrote:
>>> On Mon, Jul 17, 2006 at 09:49:02PM +1000, Stephen Grant Brown wrote:

>>>> I am unable to use dselect for the inspection of packages in the Debian
>>>> distribution.

>>> Ok. Unless someone steps forward who is willing to maintain dpkg, it
>>> will be removed from the distribution in a few days.

>> Is there any useful functionality actually provided by having dpkg for
>> Cygwin? If there is I'll have a go, but if it's just a toy that
>> happens to compile, but you can't actually do anything useful with, I
>> don't see the point.

> Um. That would be the kind of thing that a maintainer would know the
> answer to wouldn't it?

I know what the program _does_ - I just don't see how what it does can
be useful, when no one is producing .deb format packages for Cygwin.
(For that matter, the same argument applies to 'rpm' - it's present in
the Cygwin archive, but can anyone actually use it for anything useful,
since there are no .rpm format packages for Cygwin?)
Max.
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