Re: Two new "categories" created. Comment needed

[Harold L Hunt II <huntharo at msu dot edu>]

Christopher Faylor wrote:

> Harold Hunt has just, without any discussion here, created two new
> categories.  One is understandable and probably doesn't require
> discussion.

I actually created ZZZRemovedPackages at least a month or more ago.  As 
you mention, X11 was not created, it was a rename of XFree86.

> The other, more controversial addition is ZZZRemovedPackages.
>
> Harold has moved older XFree86 stuff into this directory.
>
> Does anyone have a problem with this new category?  I think it's
> obvious what it is used for.  The question is does it serve a
> useful purpose?  Is the name sufficiently clear?  Does it
> cause any side effects that may not be immediately obvious?

I vote pro :)

> If it is decided that this is a good thing then it needs to
> be documented.

I think it is a good interim solution since I don't see anyone stepping 
up to code *anything* in setup.exe or otherwise take charge of setup.exe 
[cue offended remark from Rob Collins after his last offended remark 
almost three weeks ago with still no action as far as I can tell, sorry 
Rob, but I wish you could be more honest with yourself about how much 
time you have].  A longer term solution would be a tag in setup.hint 
files that mark a package as removed, but this is insanely more complex.

Barring a complete update to setup.exe to handle removed packages, I 
think we might want adjust the script that generates 
http://cygwin.com/packages/ to make it ignore packages in the 
ZZZRemovedPackages category, which will remove lots of clutter from the 
pages it generates.  This is not essential however.

Harold