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On Wed, Jun 06, 2007 at 12:26:54PM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>On Jun  6 02:42, Brian Dessent wrote:
>> Samuel Thibault wrote:
>> 
>> > Mmm, because for a blind person this is a very basic package?
>> 
>> Perhaps, but that doesn't mean that most Cygwin users are blind.
>
>Perhaps, but that doesn't mean that an accessibility package doesn't
>make sense in the Base category.  It *might* be better to put it into
>Utils, but YMMV depending on your eyesight.

With all due respect to blind people, I don't think that we should be
putting things in the Base category without consensus.

Hopefully other people haven't been doing this either.

cgf

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