On 2025-08-17 05:41, Christian Franke via Cygwin-apps wrote:
Mark Geisert via Cygwin-apps wrote:
On 8/15/2025 2:31 AM, Joshuah Hurst via Cygwin-apps wrote:
Could the packages cygwin-utils and cygwin-utils-extra be merged,
please? MSYS2 already did this, and it's always annoying that there is
a little set of tools in an extra package. I could understand the
separation from a disk space point of view in the 1990, but with
today's 256GB SSD disks in low end laptops, it doesn't make much sense
anymore.
That hadn't occurred to me, nor has anyone else suggested it. It does make
sense though.
I'm in the process of building an update for cygutils-extra, so that will be
done as it has been in the past. But I'll consider combining the three
cygutils packages into one for later releases.
Thanks for the input,
AFAICS the split has been done 12+ years ago to resolve some dependency problems
of a "Base" installation. Discussion thread started May 2013:
https://sourceware.org/pipermail/cygwin/2013-May/208461.html
with 2 followups in June:
https://sourceware.org/pipermail/cygwin/2013-June/208573.html
Note also cygutils-extra depends on libstdc++6 which is large 2.2MB for a Base
dependency and has its own dependencies, and cygutils-x11 presumes (but does not
depend on) the X11 infrastructure including desktop-file-utils and
shared-mime-info and their dependencies libglib2.0, et. al. are installed.
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Take care. Thanks, Brian Inglis Calgary, Alberta, Canada
La perfection est atteinte Perfection is achieved
non pas lorsqu'il n'y a plus rien à ajouter not when there is no more to add
mais lorsqu'il n'y a plus rien à retrancher but when there is no more to cut
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
