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It also work on Windows, it's what MSYS uses for package management, convenient to avoid having to install CYGIN or using virtualisation.
by aikah 11y ago
It also work on Windows, it's what MSYS uses for package management, convenient to avoid having to install CYGIN or using virtualisation.
- riffraff 11y agomsys uses pacman? Is there another msys than the one at mingw.org[0] ? I believe you but I just can't find any reference to pacman there. [0] http://www.mingw.org/wiki/msys http://www.mingw.org/wiki/msys
- green7ea 11y agoI googled 'msys pacman' and it seems that msys2 uses pacman: http://sourceforge.net/p/msys2/wiki/MSYS2%20installation/ http://sourceforge.net/p/msys2/wiki/MSYS2%20installation/
- kryptiskt 11y agoHe means MSYS2 https://msys2.github.io/ https://msys2.github.io/ It's great, it has a wonderful collection of libs, sometimes it can feel a little bit too cutting edge, but after the stagnation of Mingw I'm not complaining about that.
- laumars 11y agoIt's open source software so it can (given enough time and motivation) be ported to whatever platform you wanted. Because of this I think there's a few other OSs / distro forks that also use pacman. But primarily, `pacman` is developed by ArchLinux maintainers for ArchLinux.