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From: "Ralf Habacker" <Ralf DOT Habacker AT freenet DOT de>
To: "Cygwin-Apps" <cygwin-apps AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: RE: Updated setup.ini with descriptions, categories, and dependencies
Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2001 23:43:08 +0200
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Hi,
has anybody thinked about the cygipc package, which is needed by kde ? Should
this be integrated and if so in which category ?

Regards Ralf

> Von: cygwin-apps-owner AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com
> [mailto:cygwin-apps-owner AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com]Im Auftrag von Ralf
> Habacker
> Gesendet am: Dienstag, 28. August 2001 20:42
> An: Cygwin-Apps
> Betreff: RE: Updated setup.ini with descriptions, categories, and
> dependencies
>
> > -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> > Von: cygwin-apps-owner AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com
> > [mailto:cygwin-apps-owner AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com]Im Auftrag von Gerrit P.
> > Haase
> > Gesendet am: Dienstag, 28. August 2001 19:08
> > An: cygwin-apps AT cygwin DOT com
> > Betreff: Re: Updated setup.ini with descriptions, categories, and
> > dependencies
> >
> > > Christopher Faylor schrieb am 2001-08-28 11:27:
> >
> > >As I mentioned, I am going to be sticking with the RPM descriptions.
> > >
> > >The categories are a little more problematic.  I don't agree with them in
> > >some cases, but I was hoping to write a general purpose tool which
> generated
> > >dependencies and categories from RPM.  If every single package is a special
> > >case, then the tool isn't very useful.
> > >
> > >I don't mind trashing the tool but I'd like to understand why the RPM
> > >categories are not acceptable.
> >
> > Why not use easier categories like they do in slackare?
> > They got 15 categories plus 'source' and 'contrib' where all the rest
> > lies, e.g. gcc-3.0 for the brave.
> > Many will not be needed for cygwin (x, kde, gtk, maybe in future?).
> >
> > Some programs may also reside in two or more categories to find them
> > easier like cvs that i put (as a demo) in 'devel' and in 'net'.
> > Setup knows where the package is so there is no problem if one package
> > contains both, the runtime and the devel part of something.
> >
> > As i see now, cygwin is really a development platform:
> > ======================================================
> > a:
> > ==
> > ash, bash, bzip2, cpio, cygrunsrv, cygwin, fileutls, find, grep, gzip,
> > hello, login, sh-utils, tar, tcsh, txtutils, util,
> >
> > ap:
> > ===
> > clear, cron, diff, file, ghostscript, groff, gsfonts, less, man,
> > manpages, mt, rxvt, texinfo, time, unzip, vim, which, zip
> >
> > d:
> > ==
> > autoconf, automake, binutils, bison, byacc, ctags, crypt, cvs, dejagnu,
> > flex, gawk, gcc, gcc_g77, gcc_objc, gdb, gdbm, gettext, gpref, jbigkit,
> > jpeg6, libpng, libtiff, libtool, m4, make, ncurses, opengl, patch, pcre,
> > perl, popt, python, readline, regex, sed, strace, termcap, w32api, xpm,
> > xpm-nox, zlib
> >
> > e:
> > ==
> > no emacs
> >
> > faqs:
> > =====
> > howtos, manyfaqs, minis, newlibman, docs
> >
> > gnome:
> > ======
> > no gnome
> >
> > k:
> > ==
> > what the hell is k;)
> >
> > kde:
> > ====
> > no kde
>
> kde1:
> =====
> kdesupport, kdelibs, kdebase, kdegames, kdemisc, kdeutils, qt-1.45,
> cygipc (??)
>
> kde2:
> =====
> later
>
> >
> > net:
> > ====
> > cvs, lynx, mutt, ncftp, openssh, openssl, rsync, ssmtp, wget
> >
> > t:
> > ==
> > tetex, (tex_bin, tex_doc, transfig, xfig)
> >
> > tcl:
> > ====
> > expect, tcl, tix, tk
> >
> > x, xap, xv:
> > ===========
> > no X (yet)
> >
> > y:
> > ==
> > games, contribs like: irc, mingw, postgresql, squid
> >
> > Ciao,
> >
> > Gerrit
> >
> >
> > --
> > gerrit DOT haase AT convey DOT de
> >
>
>