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Greetings, Achim Gratz!

> As long as setup.exe doesn't handle "recommendations", how about having
> an (empty) package "X-application" (or whatever better name you come up
> with) that all such applications depend on?  I'm still not sure how to
> get the actual warning to the user, but for starters the postinstall
> script could fail when it doesn't find the Cygwin X server and leave a
> file that cygcheck looks for otherwise.

Nothing stops you from showing a warning/opening a README to the user in the
same postinstall script.
And there's more, and better, ways to check for configured X server, I bet.


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Andrey Repin (anrdaemon AT freemail DOT ru) 02.03.2012, <16:22>

Sorry for my terrible english...


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