Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com X-Originating-IP: [131.130.201.196] X-Originating-Email: [robert_scheiber AT hotmail DOT com] X-Sender: robert_scheiber AT hotmail DOT com From: "Robert Scheiber" To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: unused libraries in basic install Date: Thu, 05 Aug 2004 20:22:48 +0200 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1; format=flowed Message-ID: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 05 Aug 2004 18:22:48.0493 (UTC) FILETIME=[361485D0:01C47B19] Hi! In the standard install cygwin-setup installs libraries which no program in the basic install needs: libncurses5 libncurses6 libreadline4 for all of them newer versions exist, and are in the standard install. Why install older versions by default (if there is a dependency, cygwin-setup would solve it)? Why not put the older versions from base to libs? I think base install means shell plus essential tools, plus all dependencies (libraries). Also by default gdbm libgdbm libgdbm-devel libgdbm3 libgdbm4 are being installed. Is gdbm really an essential tool? Why 2 library versions? Why a devel-package in the standard install? And is there really a need for dependency of the standard install of 3 different versions of libintl? (libintl1 libintl2 libintl3) Robert. _________________________________________________________________ Highlight Viewer - heben Sie von Ihnen gesuchte Wörter auf Webseiten hervor. http://toolbar.msn.at?DI=43&XAPID=2170 -- 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/