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Subject: Re: Updated setup.ini with descriptions, categories, and
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From: Robert Collins <robert DOT collins AT itdomain DOT com DOT au>
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Date: 28 Aug 2001 23:27:14 +1000

On 28 Aug 2001 15:06:05 +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 28, 2001 at 04:37:02PM +0400, egor duda wrote:
> > Hi!
> > 
> > Tuesday, 28 August, 2001 Corinna Vinschen vinschen AT redhat DOT com wrote:
> > 
> > CV> On Tue, Aug 28, 2001 at 04:06:49PM +0400, egor duda wrote:
> > >> Tuesday, 28 August, 2001 Corinna Vinschen vinschen AT redhat DOT com wrote:
> > >> >> @ automake
> > >> >> sdesc: "A GNU tool for automatically creating Makefiles"
> > >> 
> > >> CV> sdesc: "A tool for automatically generating GNU style Makefile.in's"
> > >> 
> > >> >> category: Development/Tools
> > >> >> requires: ash perl
> > >> 
> > >> CV> requires: ash cygwin perl
> > >> 
> > >> why? automake doesn't contain any binaries. it's even made as "noarch"
> > >> rpm in linux distros, iirc. i suppose we shouldn't include "recursive
> > >> dependencies" into the list, should we?
> > 
> > CV> What exactly is `recursive' in the above list of required packages?
> > 
> > by "recursive" i mean "dependencies for dependencies". cygwin _is_
> > required to run perl and ash, but automake itself is
> > "architecture-independent" package and will run on any platform, as
> > long as perl and /bin/sh are installed and can be run.
> 
> Hmm, yes, sure. I don't have a strong opinion here so
> 
> requires: ash perl
> 
> is ok with me, too.
> 
> Corinna

Setup will recurse into dependencies automatically.

So requires:ash perl is appropriate.

However, anything that is binary & linked to cygwin1.dll, should be
directly dependent on cygwin1.dll.

Which brings up a suggestion: how about we rename the "cygwin" package
to "libcygwin". This might reduce some of the "I installed cygwin"
confusion.

Thoughts..?

Rob