setup and "provides:" on third party repository

Thu Jan 6 11:35:35 GMT 2022

On 06.01.2022 12:15, Achim Gratz wrote:
> Marco Atzeri writes:
>> one think that I noted recently is that setup is not storing the
>> "provides:" information on the installation.
>> There's no place for it to store information about virtual packages.

I see no reason to not use
 /etc/setup/installed.db
as for the normal packages
>> It is a bit annoying, can you put in the TODO list ?
>> I think the details should be discussed on cygwin-apps.

I leave to Jon
>> Regards,
> Achim.

Regards
Marco