New Setup for Cygwin 1.7 on cygwin.com

Christopher Faylor cgf-use-the-mailinglist-please@cygwin.com
Mon Aug 25 15:28:00 GMT 2008


On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 10:33:00AM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>Making tweaks by removing valid dependencies in the hopes of improving
>things is not going to be a win in the long run.  We seem to be in a
>situation that is only solvable by changing setup.exe.

That said, however, I can manage to get base-cygwin first in the
dependency order by changing all of the "requires: ...cygwin" to
"requires: ...base-cygwin".  base-passwd is still off in the weeds
somewhere.  Maybe those two packages should just be combined?

cgf



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