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Re: -src package standard: proposal #5 and #5a



----- Original Message -----
From: "Christopher Faylor" <cgf@redhat.com>
To: <cygwin-apps@cygwin.com>
Sent: Tuesday, November 20, 2001 12:59 PM
Subject: Re: -src package standard: proposal #5 and #5a


> On Tue, Nov 20, 2001 at 12:33:06PM +1100, Robert Collins wrote:
> >----- Original Message -----
> >From: "Earnie Boyd" <fearnie_boyd@yahoo.com>
> >
> >> Hmm...  Why not just simply create an "All" category that all
packages
> >> automagically go to?  That could be done with the setup.ini script
> >> couldn't it?  That should suffice for the short and even long
terms.
> >
> >Because packages inevitably will conflict with each other. Say
someone
> >provides vim compiled for X11. What happens if both vims are
installed? Ok,
> >so that can be handled via symlinks, but there are corner cases, that
grow
> >more frequent as the package list gets bigger.
>
> Ok, so call it "Most".  Or "Almost All".  Or "Major".

k. We've still got the education process to get folk to _use_ that
category rather than email in "where's my vim, it didn't install" to get
told "use the category 'almost all'". So the extra screen is a GUI tool
more than anything else.

> I still don't see a reason to invent a whole other classification
> system.

It's not a new system. It's _all_ coded and in cvs bar the selection
screen, and a one line test in set_default.

> And, now that I think of it, you're actually anticipating that there
> will be a case where we'll have two executables called "vim" in the
> cygwin distribution?  I guess I'm having a hard time imaginging that.

gvim/vim/nvi are all different. And some folk have a preference. Then
you've got things like (say) fetchmail vs fetchmail+ssl. Or curl vs
curl+ssl. Some packages conflict in names but could be installed
alongside and resolved via symlinks. Others directly conflict with each
other.


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