On Wed, Jun 06, 2007 at 04:38:09PM -0700, Brian Dessent wrote: >Christopher Faylor wrote: > >> alternatives/setup.hint gzip/setup.hint >> ash/setup.hint login/setup.hint >> base-files/setup.hint man/setup.hint >> base-passwd/setup.hint ncurses/libncurses5/setup.hint >> bash/setup.hint ncurses/libncurses6/setup.hint >> brltty/setup.hint ncurses/libncurses7/setup.hint >> coreutils/setup.hint ncurses/libncurses8/setup.hint >> cygwin-doc/setup.hint ncurses/setup.hint >> cygwin/setup.hint readline/libreadline4/setup.hint >> diffutils/setup.hint readline/libreadline5/setup.hint >> editrights/setup.hint readline/libreadline6/setup.hint >> findutils/setup.hint rebase/setup.hint >> gawk/setup.hint run/setup.hint >> gdbm/libgdbm-devel/setup.hint sed/setup.hint >> gdbm/libgdbm/setup.hint tar/setup.hint >> gdbm/libgdbm3/setup.hint termcap/setup.hint >> gdbm/libgdbm4/setup.hint terminfo/setup.hint >> gdbm/setup.hint which/setup.hint >> grep/setup.hint zlib/setup.hint >> >> (I obviously could have gotten this from setup.ini, too) >> >> So the question is: Does this list look right. I'm not sure about >> brltty and gdbm. And I also wonder about ncurses, readline, and zlib. >> While they probably do get used by default anyway, I wonder why they >> have to be in Base. Is there a broken dependency somewhere? If not, it >> seems like they would be loaded automatically by anything in Base which >> needed them. > >I agree that there should be no lib packages in Base but that they >should rather pulled in by dependencies of whatever needs them in Base. >This saves us from having to garbage-collect the list of Base packages. >For example, it looks like the only package that still uses the ancient >libncurses5 is the ancient libreadline4, and there is nothing that still >requires libreadline4. Thus both of these seem to be now obsolete and >have no business in Base. > >And libgdbm-devel?!? Why would a -devel package be in Base? > >I'm a little skeptical that diffutils needs to be in Base too. Is there >some use of diff by core packages? > >FWIW, I use the attached perl script to output a wget-able list of all >Base packages including dependencies, given a setup.ini as input. It >also shows the total size, which as of removing brltty is > ># total size: 14397244 (13.7M)
Ok, I cleaned up all of the above. Let the Cygwin ML whines begin. cgf
