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From:	"Robert Collins" <robert DOT collins AT itdomain DOT com DOT au>
To:	<cygwin-apps AT sources DOT redhat DOT com>
Subject:	new policy for packages
Date:	Fri, 11 Jan 2002 21:03:42 +1100
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I want to suggest that the following become policy:

No new packages are accepted that require non-packaged prerequisites.

i.e. using rpm which was raised on cygwin@ recently,
until db 3.2 is packaged and maintained by 'someone', rpm is not
acceptable as a package.

Thoughts?

Rob

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