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Date:	Mon, 11 Jul 2005 23:50:08 -0400
From:	Christopher Faylor <cgf-no-personal-reply-please AT cygwin DOT com>
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Subject:	Re: rebaseall (temporary?) patch
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On Mon, Jul 11, 2005 at 08:36:55PM -0700, Brian Dessent wrote:
>Christopher Faylor wrote:
>
>> >So, anyone who installs rebase will also need to install bash.  That
>>                                                            ash
>> >seems unfortunate to me.  It means we can never deprecate ash.
>
>Since cygcheck already has capability for reading package file lists
>(/etc/setup/*.lst.gz) do you think it would be sensible to move the
>'rebaseall' logic into cygcheck, so that we don't need a shell?  But I
>suppose that doesn't get around the issue of not being able to run it
>from a bash CMD prompt as you can currently.  Though I guess it could be
>installed as a shortcut on the startup menu or something.

No, this really has nothing to do with the concept of "checking" cygwin,
so I don't think it's appropriate here.

OTOH, writing a mingw C program to do what rebaseall does wouldn't be
*that* hard.

cgf

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