Two new "categories" created. Comment needed
Harold L Hunt II
huntharo@msu.edu
Wed Apr 7 20:38:00 GMT 2004
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
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