1.7.20: cygicons-0.dll has gone missing
Christopher Faylor
cgf-use-the-mailinglist-please@cygwin.com
Fri Jun 28 16:28:00 GMT 2013
On Fri, Jun 28, 2013 at 10:22:49AM -0400, Charles Wilson wrote:
>On 6/28/2013 6:16 AM, Andrey Repin wrote:
>>>>> The cygutils package was recently split into cygutils-extra and
>>>>> cygutils-x11. Install cygutils-extra.
>>>>
>>>> Doesn't this suggest that cygicons-0.dll should be included
>>>> in the base cygwin package?
>>
>>> base does not needs icons, so in IMHO no.
>>
>> That's a bit flawed line, IMO.
>> Default install should put user's system in a consistent working order.
>> Missing icons is not something I would call "consistent".
>
>What part of a default install [1] *requires* icons from cygicon-0.dll?
> Now, if you're talking about updating an existing cygwin installation
>via setup.exe [with no special package selection], then yeah -- this is
>a *known* breakage. But it's better than the previous *known issue*
>where a default "Base" install [1] would pull in python and bits of X11.
> THAT is what this packaging change was intended to fix, and because we
>did so deliberately in order to break requires: dependencies, we
>couldn't very well avoid the problem you see by adding those same
>requires: dependencies right back.
>
>Summary: READ the cygwin-announce list. Always. KNOW what you're doing
>when you upgrade. AND, if you didn't do that...when you see an error
>due to a "routine upgrade"...go back and DO read that list.
>
>[1] And by "default install" I mean "new installation of cygwin, using
>setup.exe, on a virgin system that has never before had cygwin
>installed", where NO special package selection is made. E.g. a "Base"
>installation.
>
>And really, missing icons doesn't break a darn thing. It just makes
>things look less pretty, temporarily, until you manually install the
>correct package.
What he said.
cgf
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