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Re: New Setup for Cygwin 1.7 on cygwin.com
On Aug 21 11:12, Charles Wilson wrote:
> Christopher Faylor wrote:
>
> > To rephrase: I think it is a bad idea to remove dependencies from
> > _update-info-dir since so many things rely on it.
>
> Unless:
>
> 1) all of _update-info-dir's dependencies are already satisfied by the
> Base category
>
> or
>
> 2) we carefully map the dependency chains of the basic system-setup
> packages (cygwin, base-*, a few more?) and deliberately exclude them
> from getting _update-info-dir added to their dependency list.
>
> or
>
> 3) somehow add a priority scheme to postinstall scripts, so that in
> the event of a cycle, setup "starts" traversing the dependency loop at
> the package with the highest priority.
>
> In order of least effort to most, I'd vote #1...
Full ACK.
Corinna
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