Re: [Mingw-users] New installer

[JonY <10...@gm...>]

Earnie Boyd wrote:
> Quoting JonY<10...@gm...>:
>
>> Earnie Boyd wrote:
>>> Quoting Keith Marshall<kei...@us...>:
>>>
>>>> On Wednesday 06 August 2008 06:15:18 Keith Marshall wrote:
>>>>> I would like to see something similar to Synaptic...
>>>> http://www.nongnu.org/synaptic/action.html
>>>>
>>> Is there a windows build that is distributed somewhere?  I couldn't
>>> find one.
>>>
>>> Earnie
>>>
>> Perhaps Keith meant that the GUI should look like Synaptic.
>>
>
> In my research Synaptic was running on windows but I don't know if it
> required Cygwin or not.  If Synaptic runs on windows then why not just
> build the scripts for it to use?  It may require a sh.exe though which
> isn't exactly what we want.
>
> Earnie
>

Hi,
Synaptic is a GUI frontend for apt. It also needs GTK+-2 and friends at 
runtime.

It seems like an installer using Synaptic is inadvisable, too much bloat 
IMHO.