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Date: Sun, 25 Nov 2012 02:21:40 -0500
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Subject: Re: Creating CD of installation packages: Download incomplete. Try again?
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On Sat, Nov 24, 2012 at 07:31:48PM +0000, Paul wrote:
>Robert Pendell writes:
>>It isn't obsolete.  All obsolete packages get assigned to _obsolete
>>group.  _autorebase is assigned to _PostInstallLast and is still an
>>active group.  It is likely hidden by default to minimize confusion.
>
>I searched http://cygwin.com/setup.html and http://cygwin.com/packages
>for mention of package "groups", _obsolete, and _PostInstallLast.
>Couldn't anything.  Are such details available to noncontributors?  Can
>I also assume that "_update-info-dir 01088-1" is not obsolete?

Unsurprisingly, and as correctly asserted above, you can assume that a
package is only obsolete when it is specifically marked as obsolete.

There are some categories and packages which are used internally by
setup.exe.  If you truly want to understand what they do then inspect
their contents and read the setup source.

cgf

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