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Re: cygutils: Category



----- Original Message -----
From: "Earnie Boyd" <earnie_boyd@yahoo.com>
> > http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin-developers/2001-06/msg00098.html
is
> > the message where Misc is suggested by cgf.
> >
>
> I see, I chimed in on that thread.  I didn't know though it would be a
> required download.  Hopefully, this can be remedied in the future.

IMO once we have self-describing packages - a la rpm/deb then the
local-install functionality can change radically - we make two
statements:
1) If you want current local install w/no setup.ini behaviour, save your
current setup.exe. It's going away.
2) Local installs w/no setup.ini get all the important package metadata,
including categories and dependencies by reading the metadata from the
local packages. We also provide a simple tool to add that metadata when
creating those packages.

(and yes, it is possible that those packages will be pure rpm/deb files,
but that is an orthogonal issue).

Rob


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