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Packages which do nothing
- From: Jon Turney <jon dot turney at dronecode dot org dot uk>
- To: cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com
- Date: Sun, 9 Apr 2017 18:49:55 +0100
- Subject: Packages which do nothing
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Following on from the discussion up to [1]
Below is a list of packages that:
1/all install packages are empty
2/have no dependencies
3/aren't obsoletion packages
The majority of these are annotated 'empty', 'source only' or similar,
but as pointed out, it's somewhat confusing to show these in setup's
package list, as installing the binary package does nothing.
I've made a change to calm so packages satisfying these conditions don't
appear in setup.ini, so they won't be offered for installation by setup.
These sources are still installable by asking setup to install the
source of any of the subpackages (e.g. the corresponding runtime library
or devel package)
[1] https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2017-04/msg00091.html
amd
analitza
arpack
btf
camd
ccolamd
cholmod
colamd
cxsparse
gl2ps
klu
lapack
ldl
libart_lgpl_2
libdaemon (only on x86)
libqalculate
libtorrent
libwnck
netcdf-cxx4
netcdf-fortran
onig
openblas
qimageblitz (only on x86)
qrupdate
rbio
serf
slang
spqr
suitesparseconfig
umfpack