X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.0 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,DKIM_SIGNED,DKIM_VALID,DKIM_VALID_AU,FREEMAIL_FROM,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,T_TO_NO_BRKTS_FREEMAIL X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <4BBA4B92.7070306@gmail.com> Date: Mon, 05 Apr 2010 21:44:02 +0100 From: Dave Korn User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.17 (Windows/20080914) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: qt3 silently fails to install? References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Id: 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 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. cheers, DaveK -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple