Can we go together and convince the stubborn Cygwin-devs to PLEASE integrate this into mainline? I've tried a couple of times to convince them that we need something like apt-cyg, and lots of people keep trying, but they just won't budge.
Like 10 years ago, I was poking them at the idea of having some command line support for package installation instead of having to go through the brittle setup.exe to install/update packages... You can make an educated guess at the answer to anything related to non-retarded package management.
See the discussion here: http://groups.google.com/group/apt-cyg-discuss/browse_thread...