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Re: Heads-up: postinstall scripts and PATH (Attn all package maintainers)
On Wed, Feb 25, 2004 at 08:26:18PM +0100, Gerrit P. Haase wrote:
>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.
IIRC, it was to avoid stepping on existing old-style mingw directory layouts.
Possibly it is no longer necessary. It's up to you on whether you want to
keep it or not.
cgf