Greetings, cyg Simple! > On 8/29/2018 6:01 AM, Andrey Repin wrote: >> >> I think we need a "build-essential" metapackage. >>
> I would suggest base-devel as the name of the metapackage. build-essential is a name of a well-known Debian metapackage. > But what exactly should that include? Package: build-essential State: not installed Version: 12.1ubuntu2 Priority: optional Section: devel Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers <ubuntu-devel-disc...@lists.ubuntu.com> Architecture: amd64 Uncompressed Size: 20,5 k Depends: libc6-dev | libc-dev, gcc (>= 4:5.2), g++ (>= 4:5.2), make, dpkg-dev (>= 1.17.11) In case of Cygwin, it should probably include autotools and cygport. > Should there be more than one metapackage that adds more complex tools? IDK, I'm not a developer myself. -- With best regards, Andrey Repin Thursday, August 30, 2018 3:23:38 Sorry for my terrible english... -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
