On 6/19/2013 10:16 AM, Lemke, Michael SZ/HZA-ZSW wrote:
On Wed, 19 Jun 2013 10:06:49 -0400 Charles Wilson wrote:
On 6/19/2013 9:59 AM, Lemke, Michael SZ/HZA-ZSW wrote:
Is that intended?
Yes. Install cygutils-extra. See:
http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-announce/2013-06/msg00007.html
Thanks for the quick reply, I found it. Nevertheless, all I did was updating
> cygwin and suddenly installed stuff was gone. Not funny.
Ordinarily, package splits such as this one would ALSO incorporate
modifications to the package requirements list, so that this sort of
thing doesn't happen.
That is, the "slimmed down" cygutils package would 'require:' the
cygutils-extra and cygutils-x11 packages, so that anybody who previously
had the "old, fat" cygutils package installed would automatically get
the two new packages, as part of the upgrade -- and would so no visible
changes in their installation.
However, the purpose of this package split was specifically to *cut
down* on the default installation footprint of cygutils -- because
several elements in the 'Base' category require cygutils (specifically,
they required mkshortcut, readshortcut, and cygstart). Thus, in THIS
case, we could NOT do the "normal" thing in manipulating the
requirements specifications.
Which means..."I updated cygwin and suddenly installed stuff was gone".
There just wasn't any better solution available.
Sorry for the trouble.
--
Chuck
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