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Re: cygutils: Category
- From: Charles Wilson <cwilson at ece dot gatech dot edu>
- To: Robert Collins <robert dot collins at itdomain dot com dot au>
- Cc: cygwin-apps at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: Wed, 05 Dec 2001 13:11:13 -0500
- Subject: Re: cygutils: Category
- References: <042901c17d85$0663ca10$0200a8c0@lifelesswks>
Robert Collins wrote:
> Chuck,
> Misc as a category acts like base: things in it always install.
Oh, that makes sense -- given that things without a setup.ini entry are
placed in misc by default. Without that behavior, installing from a
local collection of tarballs won't work.
>
> I guess this isn't documented clearly anywhere except the cygdev
> archives, so I'll correct that soon.
Please do. :-)
I guess nothing should go in Misc, then. If we WANT stuff to always
install, then it should be in Base (the category == meta-package, "base"
is a special case, yadda yadda yadda). Misc should be RESERVED for the
"no setup.ini entry, must be an special package the user put in their
local repository" case.
>
> Can I suggest that the cygutils packages belongs in (shock horror) Utils
Done.
--Chuck