On Thu, Jun 12, 2014 at 04:58:25PM -0500, Steven Penny wrote: >On Mon, May 26, 2014 at 3:12 PM, Christopher Faylor wrote: >> And, frankly, I think it's a bad idea to keep a monolithic list of >> packages available for people to download anyway. > >I would counter that Debian and others who use "apt-get" already do this, >Example > >http://http.debian.net/debian/dists/wheezy/main/Contents-amd64.gz > >> This file maps each file available in the Debian GNU/Linux system to >> the package from which it originates. It includes packages from the >> DIST distribution for the ARCH architecture. >> You can use this list to determine which package contains a specific >> file, or whether or not a specific file is available. The list is >> updated weekly, each architecture on a different day. > >so maybe you could voice your opinion to them as well.
FYI, trolling is obviously off-topic here. It's nice that you found a solution to your problem, however. cgf -- 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