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On Tue, 2003-02-18 at 03:17, Christopher Faylor wrote: > Shouldn't the dependency part of setup.exe be "back end" driven? That > is, when setup.exe goes to install tar, shouldn't it complain if gzip > isn't installed or going to be installed? > > If not, maybe we need a utility which can be run (cygcheck?) to check > package dependencies. Then we can just tell someone to "run cygcheck -p" > to analyze their packages or something. It is driven at the back end. We just don't have a gui for alerting about dependency problems. The gui needs to address: * Showing the problem (ie. 1) that tar needs gzip, but can't find it gzip, or 2) that tar needs gzip, but it's been deliberately deselected) * Allow the user to rectify the problem (i.e. automatically select the missing packages, or cancel setup if there are non-available packages). I've been meaning to make the chooser just a *little* more run-time configurable, and then we can pop up a contectual chooser window showing just the relevant packages. Oh, as for missing packages, cygcheck -p if fine by me, although I suggest leveraging the setup.exe classes a la setup-lint. Rob -- GPG key available at: <http://users.bigpond.net.au/robertc/keys.txt>.
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