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On Sat, Jun 30, 2001 at 11:44:30AM +1000, Robert Collins wrote: > >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Christopher Faylor" <cgf AT redhat DOT com> > > >> >> >> Robert, if you are still interested, then I think that this is >> >definitely the >> >> >> way to go. If you have something worth checking in, then please do >so. >> > >> >I'll draw up change log stuff and send something to cygwin-patches... or >did >> >you want me to hit CVS directly? >> >> Go ahead and check it in. We can tweak it later. > >Committed. > >> I was just thinking of using the directories as an organizational method >> for the packages on sourceware. The alternative is to somehow get the >> information into the setup.hint file there or to add some other file to >> the directory. That's a lot of work and it's error-prone. I can easily >> foresee erroneously having a Development and a Devlopment (misspelled) >> category if we do this on a per-package basis. > >I'm in favour of having that data in the package file itself, and a scanning >tool that buils setup.ini. We already have a scanning tool for this. It builds setup.ini by scanning the directories. I guess it could open each tar file and look there, too, but that seems like overkill for now. >This is useful for home users as well, and allows a semi-automated >"package verification" so that you don't have to check for Devlopment. How would this allow for verification? Would there be a global list of accepted categories somewhere? cgf
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