Date: Mon, 5 Apr 2010 15:45:39 -0500 (CDT)
From: Tim McDaniel <tmcd@panix.com>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: qt3 silently fails to install?
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On Mon, 5 Apr 2010, Dave Korn <dave.korn.cygwin@googlemail.com> wrote:
> On 05/04/2010 21:03, Tim McDaniel wrote:
>
>> I don't know of anything that I have installed that uses qt3* -- at
>> least, I suppose that setup.exe would have complained if any Cygwin
>> package needed it, and surely it's unlikely that anything outside
>> Cygwin would need it.  So I may just remove both and leave them
>> uninstalled.  Still, I thought I should report this oddity.
>>
>> (While I'm here: out of curiosity, why does qt3's description say
>> "(sources)" when the "Bin?" box is checked?)
>
> The whole thing is a known glitch that arises with dummy empty
> "meta-packages" (qt3 is one, gcc4 another) that are used to pull in
> a group of packages as a whole through their dependencies.  It can
> be ignored; it does nothing and has no effect, so just leave it
> there and you'll be fine.  It's not even actually installing
> anything repeatedly.

Thank you for the information.  Since nothing appears to depend on qt3
on my system, I will probably uninstall qt3 and qt3-doc just to clear
out the annoying message.

-- 
Tim McDaniel, tmcd@panix.com

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