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Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2005 11:41:05 -0500 (CDT)
From: Satish Balay <balay AT fastmail DOT fm>
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: cygwin-setup & rebaseall
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On Tue, 25 Oct 2005, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:

> Plus, as Jason mentions, rebasing corrupts some DLLs.  So, until a robust
> solution for that is found, automatically rebasing in setup.exe isn't such
> a hot idea.

So the curent assesment is :
 
 - python - and similar tools can break - is so use rebase to fix it.
 - rebase is broken - is lets not use it all the time.

[so it appears cygwin can always be in broken state - this is not good]

And Jason's post was in Feb-2002 - and things have been in this bad
state since a long time.

Mabe those broken packages now work now? - so this objection can be
removed?

Thanks,
Satish

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