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. Sorry if that wasn't clear :} Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Maintainer cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat
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