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Samuel Thibault wrote: > Yes of course (I actually call the uninstallation script at preremove). > But the question is "do we dare installing a driver just because the > user asked for package installation?". > > The problem is that libusb-win32 might be pulled as a dependency of > another package (the upcoming brltty package for instance), in which > case the use may be really be aware that some driver will get installed. I think it would be very bad to install a (kernel-mode) driver by default without any action of the user just because they selected a package to install. > Maybe I could ship two separate packages: one for the library and one > for the driver, and automatically install the driver at postinstall of > the second package. That sounds ugly, why can't the user just run foo-config like every other package that requires configuration? Brian -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
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