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Re: why does setup keep trying to install non-required packages?
- From: Andrew Schulman <schulman dot andrew at epa dot gov>
- To: cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com
- Date: Mon, 12 Aug 2013 09:31:27 -0400
- Subject: Re: why does setup keep trying to install non-required packages?
- References: <43b4bb5feb363c6c96156670883ae07d at 5200-glenwood dot net> <43b4bb5feb363c6c96156670883ae07d-7c4vKTxFr5RC4rrJuJgdw16hYfS7NtTn at public dot gmane dot org> <520794A2 dot 8070206 at cornell dot edu>
> On 8/11/2013 3:16 AM, Andrew Schulman wrote:
> > Fairly often when I run setup just for updates, it selects new packages for
> > installation that I haven't selected and that aren't required by any of my
> > other packages.
> >
> > Right now setup wants to install the login package. I didn't select it,
> > and if I unselect it the installation continues without any problem. It
> > happened in setup-x86, and now setup-x86_64 wants to do it too. I try to
> > keep my installation slim, so I don't want setup to add new packages that
> > aren't required and that I didn't select.
> >
> > Has anyone else observed this? Know the reason? Are they new packages,
> > and setup assumes I want all new packages?
>
> login is in the Base category and so is installed by default. It was
> only recently added to the 64-bit distro, but I think it's been in x86
> for a long time. The files on sourceware date from 2009.
>
> As far as I know, only things in Base and Misc (and their dependencies)
> get installed by default. (And packages in Misc are usually there by
> mistake, because a maintainer forgot to provide a setup.hint.) I
> haven't observed any exceptions to this.
OK, I see that login is in the base category - although that seems like a
mistake to me, since it seems like a package that few Cygwin users will
ever use.
Leaving that aside, I know there are other packages that setup has tried to
install, and that I don't see in the base or misc categories. Unfortunately
I don't remember now what they were, but the next time it happens I'll
report it here.