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Re: Heads-up: postinstall scripts and PATH (Attn all package maintainers)
- From: "Gerrit P. Haase" <gp at familiehaase dot de>
- To: cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com
- Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2004 20:26:18 +0100
- Subject: Re: Heads-up: postinstall scripts and PATH (Attn all package maintainers)
- Organization: Esse keine toten Tiere
- References: <Pine.GSO.4.56.0402241406210.13702@slinky.cs.nyu.edu>
- Reply-to: "Gerrit @ cygwin-apps" <cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com>
Hallo Igor,
24. Februar 2004 at 21:00:
> gcc-mingw*.sh: ln
> Note: uses "tar", but "tar" is not "require"d. Also, do we *really*
> want this weird extraction mechanism?
Package tar is in base.
I remember that there was a reason for this mechanism, but I cannot
what the reason was.
Gerrit
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