X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com
X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org
X-IronPortListener: Outbound_SMTP
Content-class: urn:content-classes:message
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; 	charset="iso-8859-1"
Subject: RE:  setup-procedure: "find" from homepage gives no category for a package
Date: Fri, 23 May 2008 08:50:01 -0400
Message-ID: <31DDB7BE4BF41D4888D41709C476B6570929AFAA@NIHCESMLBX5.nih.gov>
In-Reply-To: <31DDB7BE4BF41D4888D41709C476B6570929AFA9@NIHCESMLBX5.nih.gov>
References: <A572040FCA64F540BD86423925CB90A9A7950E@INFRA-BLN-EX2K.psi.de> <31DDB7BE4BF41D4888D41709C476B6570929AFA9@NIHCESMLBX5.nih.gov>
From: "Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E]" <BBuchbinder@niaid.nih.gov>
To: <cygwin@cygwin.com>
X-IsSubscribed: yes
Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm
Precedence: bulk
List-Id: <cygwin.cygwin.com>
List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:cygwin-unsubscribe-archive-cygwin=delorie.com@cygwin.com>
List-Subscribe: <mailto:cygwin-subscribe@cygwin.com>
List-Archive: <http://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin/>
List-Post: <mailto:cygwin@cygwin.com>
List-Help: <mailto:cygwin-help@cygwin.com>, <http://sourceware.org/ml/#faqs>
Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com
Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by delorie.com id m4NCoV6Y010042

Gahr, Wolfgang wrote on Friday, May 23, 2008 6:43 AM:

> A question concerning the setup-procedure.
> 
> It is difficult to find the category for a given package. I give an
> example: 
> 
> If you are looking for the package "rsync", you can use "find" on the 
> Homepage. But the resulting list shows no hint about the category for 
> the setup, so you have to search manually all the categories until
> you are lucky.   
> 
> It would be great to include the category to the results of the 
> "find".

As long as this is being discussed: I have long wished that <setup.hint> was included in the results, both to see the <ldesc> And <requires> without having to look inside <setup.ini>.  (So this is a convenience, not a necessity.)

- Barry
  -  Disclaimer:
     Statements made herein are not made on behalf of NIAID.

--
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/