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Re: [HEADSUP] Base category


On Dec  6 13:21, Ken Brown wrote:
> On 12/6/2014 12:57 PM, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> >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.
> 
> I just did a test install on each architecture and extracted the info from
> setup.log.
> 
> Both arches:
> ============
> _autorebase
> _update-info-dir
> bzip2
> ca-certificates
> groff
> less
> libargp
> libattr1
> libblkid1
> libbz2_1
> libffi6
> libgcc1
> libgdbm4
> libgmp10
> libiconv
> libiconv2
> libintl8
> liblzma5
> libmpfr4
> libncursesw10
> libopenssl100
> libp11-kit0
> libpcre1
> libpipeline1
> libpopt0
> libsmartcols1
> libstdc++6
> libtasn1_6
> libuuid1
> lynx
> p11-kit
> p11-kit-trust
> popt
> xz
> zlib0
> 
> 32-bit only:
> ============
> libcharset1
> libncurses10
> 
> 64-bit only:
> ============
> libreadline7

Cool, thanks.  These are much less packages than I feared.


Corinna

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Corinna Vinschen                  Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to
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