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Re: New Setup for Cygwin 1.7 on cygwin.com
On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 05:20:41PM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>On Aug 21 11:12, Charles Wilson wrote:
>> Christopher Faylor wrote:
>>
>> > To rephrase: I think it is a bad idea to remove dependencies from
>> > _update-info-dir since so many things rely on it.
>>
>> Unless:
>>
>> 1) all of _update-info-dir's dependencies are already satisfied by the
>> Base category
>>
>> or
>>
>> 2) we carefully map the dependency chains of the basic system-setup
>> packages (cygwin, base-*, a few more?) and deliberately exclude them
>> from getting _update-info-dir added to their dependency list.
>>
>> or
>>
>> 3) somehow add a priority scheme to postinstall scripts, so that in
>> the event of a cycle, setup "starts" traversing the dependency loop at
>> the package with the highest priority.
>>
>> In order of least effort to most, I'd vote #1...
>
>Full ACK.
If only this was a democracy.
I've made the change I mentioned. Neither bash nor texinfo rely on
_update-info-dir.
cgf