On Sep 27 01:46, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > On Tue, 27 Sep 2005, Christopher Faylor wrote: > > On Mon, Sep 26, 2005 at 11:19:36PM -0400, Charles Wilson wrote: > > >I've got a new release of ncurses which contains /usr/bin/clear.exe > > >ready to go (but not yet copied into /release). > > > > > >Go ahead an put an empty clear package up on sources (clear-1.0-2 ?) and > > >we'll let that propagate, and then I'll move my new ncurses over to > > >release/. > > > > I know that there was some talk of releasing an empty clear package but > > I don't see how that would be useful. If I do that then we stand the chance > > of eliminating clear.exe when the clear package is "updated", meaning that > > we could conceivably remove the clear.exe that ncurses installed. > > > > I think the only thing we can do is remove clear from the distribution. > > Actually, it's the other way around. If the new (empty) clear package and > the new ncurses are pushed to the mirrors together, the ownership of > clear.exe goes to ncurses. Whenever both are installed, both will be > upgraded, thus "moving" clear.exe to ncurses.
I've uploaded new empty clear packages. I've not put the clear package into the _obsolete category so far. Can I do this already? Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat, Inc.
