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Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2001 11:35:04 -0500
From: Earnie Boyd <earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com>
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Subject: Re: FW: bash completion (was: RE: Units)
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Christopher Faylor wrote:
> 
> On Wed, Dec 19, 2001 at 01:58:55PM -0000, Ebrey, Carl wrote:
> >Gah!  I meant to send this to the list but I replied and so it went to
> >Earnie instead.  Sorry about that...
> >
> >Okay, I could be really wrong here but from what I can see,
> >http://cygwin.com/setup.html doesn't mention any "Shell Utils" category.
> >What it does quite clearly state is, "Please do not invent a new category
> >without checking with the cygwin-apps mailing list first".  Does that mean
> >that we should consider that to be a proposal for a new category? :)
> 
> As Chuck has pointed out, we are clearly not going to approve a category
> which is essentially a concatenation of two existing categories.  And, it
> doesn't make sense to me to use this particular package for a departure
> from current practices.
> 

Let's not stray from the intent of my original reply.  Ok, bad choice of
verbiage.  My intent was to say that Utils is the wrong category for
this Shell specific package.  What should that category be instead?  How
about 'Others' or 'Contrib' or ?

Earnie.

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