Re: PING MAINTAINERS of ccache, distcc, ocaml: [was Re: [1.7] gcc-3.4.4-3 gets reinstalled every time I run setup]

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

On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 10:54:30PM +0100, Dave Korn wrote:
>Eric Blake wrote:
>>According to Andrew Schulman on 1/9/2009 7:42 AM:
>>>Subject says it all.  setup sees the package as new, and reinstalls it,
>>>every time.
>>>
>>>Is this a known problem?  I didn't see any other reports of it.  Is
>>>there a simple fix or workaround?
>>
>>The package is a source-only package, but something else you have
>>selected depends on it.  Because it is source-only, setup.exe has
>>nothing to install when doing the default binary-only installation; and
>>even if you do install source, setup.exe doesn't recognize that a
>>source-only package has been installed.
>
>In the meantime, I think that ocaml, ccache and distcc should remove
>gcc from their setup.hint lines, and perhaps replace it by gcc-core.

I've made the change but I wonder if I should just remove ccache from
the distro.  I have never heard that anyone is using it.

cgf