X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org
Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2007 03:33:01 +0200
From: Samuel Thibault <samuel DOT thibault AT ens-lyon DOT org>
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: libusb-win32 auto-install?
Message-ID: <20070423013301.GE7781@interface.famille.thibault.fr>
Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
References: <20070422142332 DOT GN7781 AT interface DOT famille DOT thibault DOT fr> <462B7BBF DOT 6030300 AT cygwin DOT com> <20070422152037 DOT GQ7781 AT interface DOT famille DOT thibault DOT fr> <462C0B1E DOT 1000002 AT cygwin DOT com>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1
Content-Disposition: inline
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
In-Reply-To: <462C0B1E.1000002@cygwin.com>
User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.12-2006-07-14
X-IsSubscribed: yes
Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm
Precedence: bulk
List-Id: <cygwin.cygwin.com>
List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:cygwin-unsubscribe-archive-cygwin=delorie DOT com AT cygwin DOT com>
List-Subscribe: <mailto:cygwin-subscribe AT cygwin DOT com>
List-Archive: <http://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin/>
List-Post: <mailto:cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
List-Help: <mailto:cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com>, <http://sourceware.org/ml/#faqs>
Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com
Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com

Hi,

Larry Hall (Cygwin), le Sun 22 Apr 2007 21:25:50 -0400, a écrit :
> The final decision is, of course, yours but I would say that if it's
> really just an installation step, there's nothing technically stopping
> you from performing the step automatically through a postinstall script,
> for example.

Yes of course (I actually call the uninstallation script at preremove).
But the question is "do we dare installing a driver just because the
user asked for package installation?".

The problem is that libusb-win32 might be pulled as a dependency of
another package (the upcoming brltty package for instance), in which
case the use may be really be aware that some driver will get installed.

Maybe I could ship two separate packages: one for the library and one
for the driver, and automatically install the driver at postinstall of
the second package.

Samuel

--
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/