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Date: | Wed, 05 Dec 2001 13:11:13 -0500 |
From: | Charles Wilson <cwilson AT ece DOT gatech DOT edu> |
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To: | Robert Collins <robert DOT collins AT itdomain DOT com DOT au> |
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Subject: | Re: cygutils: Category |
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Robert Collins wrote: > Chuck, > Misc as a category acts like base: things in it always install. Oh, that makes sense -- given that things without a setup.ini entry are placed in misc by default. Without that behavior, installing from a local collection of tarballs won't work. > > I guess this isn't documented clearly anywhere except the cygdev > archives, so I'll correct that soon. Please do. :-) I guess nothing should go in Misc, then. If we WANT stuff to always install, then it should be in Base (the category == meta-package, "base" is a special case, yadda yadda yadda). Misc should be RESERVED for the "no setup.ini entry, must be an special package the user put in their local repository" case. > > Can I suggest that the cygutils packages belongs in (shock horror) Utils Done. --Chuck
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