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Re: Updated setup.ini with descriptions, categories, and dependencies


On Wed, Aug 29, 2001 at 11:55:27AM +1000, Robert Collins wrote:
>On 28 Aug 2001 11:27:14 -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>> I don't mind trashing the tool but I'd like to understand why the RPM
>> categories are not acceptable.
>
>Some of them are accurate-but-misleading. Take squid for instance. Yes
>it is a daemon.. but its much more intuitive (for me) to look for it as
>a "Net" item. 
> 
>> WRT, breaking up cygwin into two packages, I think that that would just be
>> busy work.  It would complicate my life to do this and I think it would
>> complicate all of our lives when the questions start cropping up on the
>> mailing list.
>
>I agree. Somehow my rename it to libcygwin got lost however - what are
>your thoughts on that? (the goal being removing the current
>cygwin-the-distro, cygwin-the-project, cygwin-the-package) confusion
>somewhat by making it (cygwin-the-distro, cygwin-the-project,
>libcygwin-the-package).

I think it is too late, unfortunately.  Maybe when we have a better way
to handle uninstalling and installing in setup.exe we can rename cygwin
to libcygwin.

cgf


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