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Re: [HEADSUP] Base category


On Dec  6 12:40, Ken Brown wrote:
> On 12/6/2014 11:57 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> >Hi,
> >
> >isn't it rather annoying that even Base packages have dependencies
> >outside the Base category?  So, even if I perform a plain Base-only
> >installation, I get asked if dependencies shall be fullfilled, which, as
> >a question, is more than borderline anyway.
> >
> >Therefore, shouldn't we put all packages Base packages depend on into
> >Base as well?
> 
> That makes sense to me.  The popup about dependencies could be confusing for
> someone installing Cygwin for the first time.

ACK.

> >Also, can we automate this?
> 
> I'm not sure that's a good idea.  If the dependencies of a Base package
> change, it's probably good for this to be noticeable, in case it was due to
> a packaging error.

Uh, I was only talking about automating to add the categories to all
affected packages once and get a list of packages to send to this list.
Sorry if that wasn't clear :}


Corinna

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