but cygwin could also be a debian package. if a package depends on cygwin, the cygwin package will automatically installed.
On Fri, 14 Dec 2001 07:51:22 -0700, Mark Paulus wrote: >They could only coexist if you are running cygwin. However, >in the case where someone gets a native win32 port >of dpkg/apt running, then you would have a case where >folks would NOT be able to run cygwinized packages within their >environment, and so they shouldn't be able to grab the >packages. >>couldn't native and cygwin ports coexist in the same port? does it make >>sense to have two versions of a program?

