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MinGW ships with pacman, I can’t see why one would need this.
by marmaduke 8y ago
MinGW ships with pacman, I can’t see why one would need this.
- zapzupnz 8y agoBecause not everybody needs all the stuff that comes with MinGW? Why install all that stuff if they don't intend to use it, just to get a package manager designed for another platform? Apart from the fact that the MinGW port of pacman is designed for the MinGW environment only, and therefore doesn't necessarily integrate all that well with the rest of the Windows system, the packages it provides are mainly ports of software from other systems (chiefly Linux and BSD) rather than native Windows software. Doesn't seem all that relevant.
- marmaduke 8y ago> Looking for familiar Unix tools? Is the leading line in the motivational paragraph for this tool, and its example usage is > scoop install curl Your comment doesn’t seem all that relevant.
- pjmlp 8y agoMost Windows devs don't care about MinGW.