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From:	"Robert Scheiber" <robert_scheiber AT hotmail DOT com>
To:	cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject:	unused libraries in basic install
Date:	Thu, 05 Aug 2004 20:22:48 +0200
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X-OriginalArrivalTime:	05 Aug 2004 18:22:48.0493 (UTC) FILETIME=[361485D0:01C47B19]

Hi!

In the standard install cygwin-setup installs libraries which no program in 
the basic install needs:

libncurses5
libncurses6
libreadline4

for all of them newer versions exist, and are in the standard install. Why 
install older versions by default (if there is a dependency, cygwin-setup 
would solve it)? Why not put the older versions from base to libs?

I think base install means shell plus essential tools, plus all dependencies 
(libraries).

Also by default
gdbm
libgdbm
libgdbm-devel
libgdbm3
libgdbm4
are being installed. Is gdbm really an essential tool? Why 2 library 
versions? Why a devel-package in the standard install?

And is there really a need for dependency of the standard install of 3 
different versions of libintl? (libintl1 libintl2 libintl3)

Robert.

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