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On Tue, Nov 20, 2001 at 12:33:06PM +1100, Robert Collins wrote: >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Earnie Boyd" <fearnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com> > >> Hmm... Why not just simply create an "All" category that all packages >> automagically go to? That could be done with the setup.ini script >> couldn't it? That should suffice for the short and even long terms. > >Because packages inevitably will conflict with each other. Say someone >provides vim compiled for X11. What happens if both vims are installed? Ok, >so that can be handled via symlinks, but there are corner cases, that grow >more frequent as the package list gets bigger. Ok, so call it "Most". Or "Almost All". Or "Major". I still don't see a reason to invent a whole other classification system. And, now that I think of it, you're actually anticipating that there will be a case where we'll have two executables called "vim" in the cygwin distribution? I guess I'm having a hard time imaginging that. cgf
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