Port dpkg to windows? (was Re: RPM)

[Paul Wade <paulwade@greenbush.com>]

On Mon, 31 Mar 1997, [iso-8859-1] Nicolás Lichtmaier wrote:

>  Of course.. every program uses system DLL's... but we should forget that
> because MS isn't going to use dpkg.. =)

How many of the MS drones would use it? No GUI, decisions required, etc.

This would make much more sense if MS gave us the source. Then we could
use dpkg to install packages on a system that didn't crash and burn. Yes,
let's work hard to put dpkg on a system that requires frequent rebooting.
I can see it now - a dselect that tells you the system must be restarted
for the changes to take effect!

The windows users have already been given the ultimate program. It's
called rawrite and using it wisely will solve their problems.

Wouldn't it be better to work on easy conversion for non-debian Linux
users? Read the newsgroups and see how many newbie posts start out with "I
just installed Slackware version old.old". They must be getting it from
cereal boxes or something.

Paul Wade - Greenbush Technologies Corporation
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