Re: [PATCH setup 10/11] Don't show source-only packages in package list

[Jon Turney <jon dot turney at dronecode dot org dot uk>]

On 01/05/2017 15:45, Yaakov Selkowitz wrote:
> On 2017-04-28 07:12, Jon Turney wrote:
> > external-source: packages which have no binary package will be
> > marked skip: and so won't show up in setup.ini at all.
> >
> > If we change to using the Source: line to identify a source
> > package, which is (by definition) source only, these will appear in
> > setup.ini, but without any install: lines, so we need to explicitly
> > avoid showing them in the package list.
>
> Does this necessitate a change to cygport?

Not of itself.

The first paragraph describes the current state of affairs, since calm 
generates 'source:' lines, not 'Source:' lines.

This is preparatory work for possible noarching of source packages as 
discussed in [1].

[1] https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-apps/2017-04/msg00069.html