Re: setup.hints which mention Base in their category

[Christopher Faylor <cgf-use-the-mailinglist-please at cygwin dot com>]

On Wed, Jun 06, 2007 at 04:38:09PM -0700, Brian Dessent wrote:
>Christopher Faylor wrote:
>
>> alternatives/setup.hint                 gzip/setup.hint
>> ash/setup.hint                          login/setup.hint
>> base-files/setup.hint                   man/setup.hint
>> base-passwd/setup.hint                  ncurses/libncurses5/setup.hint
>> bash/setup.hint                         ncurses/libncurses6/setup.hint
>> brltty/setup.hint                       ncurses/libncurses7/setup.hint
>> coreutils/setup.hint                    ncurses/libncurses8/setup.hint
>> cygwin-doc/setup.hint                   ncurses/setup.hint
>> cygwin/setup.hint                       readline/libreadline4/setup.hint
>> diffutils/setup.hint                    readline/libreadline5/setup.hint
>> editrights/setup.hint                   readline/libreadline6/setup.hint
>> findutils/setup.hint                    rebase/setup.hint
>> gawk/setup.hint                         run/setup.hint
>> gdbm/libgdbm-devel/setup.hint           sed/setup.hint
>> gdbm/libgdbm/setup.hint                 tar/setup.hint
>> gdbm/libgdbm3/setup.hint                termcap/setup.hint
>> gdbm/libgdbm4/setup.hint                terminfo/setup.hint
>> gdbm/setup.hint                         which/setup.hint
>> grep/setup.hint                         zlib/setup.hint
>> 
>> (I obviously could have gotten this from setup.ini, too)
>> 
>> So the question is: Does this list look right.  I'm not sure about
>> brltty and gdbm.  And I also wonder about ncurses, readline, and zlib.
>> While they probably do get used by default anyway, I wonder why they
>> have to be in Base.  Is there a broken dependency somewhere?  If not, it
>> seems like they would be loaded automatically by anything in Base which
>> needed them.
>
>I agree that there should be no lib packages in Base but that they
>should rather pulled in by dependencies of whatever needs them in Base. 
>This saves us from having to garbage-collect the list of Base packages. 
>For example, it looks like the only package that still uses the ancient
>libncurses5 is the ancient libreadline4, and there is nothing that still
>requires libreadline4.  Thus both of these seem to be now obsolete and
>have no business in Base.
>
>And libgdbm-devel?!?  Why would a -devel package be in Base?
>
>I'm a little skeptical that diffutils needs to be in Base too.  Is there
>some use of diff by core packages?
>
>FWIW, I use the attached perl script to output a wget-able list of all
>Base packages including dependencies, given a setup.ini as input.   It
>also shows the total size, which as of removing brltty is
>
># total size: 14397244 (13.7M)

Ok, I cleaned up all of the above.  Let the Cygwin ML whines begin.

cgf