On 05/04/2010 21:03, Tim McDaniel wrote:
I don't know of anything that I have installed that uses qt3* -- at
least, I suppose that setup.exe would have complained if any Cygwin
package needed it, and surely it's unlikely that anything outside
Cygwin would need it. So I may just remove both and leave them
uninstalled. Still, I thought I should report this oddity.
(While I'm here: out of curiosity, why does qt3's description say
"(sources)" when the "Bin?" box is checked?)
The whole thing is a known glitch that arises with dummy empty
"meta-packages" (qt3 is one, gcc4 another) that are used to pull in
a group of packages as a whole through their dependencies. It can
be ignored; it does nothing and has no effect, so just leave it
there and you'll be fine. It's not even actually installing
anything repeatedly.