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Re: New Setup for Cygwin 1.7 on cygwin.com


On Aug 15 15:03, Dave Korn wrote:
> Brian Dessent wrote on 15 August 2008 14:46:
> 
> > Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> > 
> >> What I still don't get is that, in my local install, the update-info-dir,
> >> coreutils, and terminfo postinstall scripts ran before the bash
> >> postinstall script, even though all of them list bash as requirement. 
> >> Any idea? 
> > 
> > It's a circular dependency -- _update-info-dir and bash both list each
> > other as requirements.  
> 
>   And not the only one; see my graph for an illustration.  (That's a
> manually-extracted subgraph of the whole dependency mesh, but 'complete' in
> the sense that I've only omitted incoming dependencies).

Yuk!  Would it help if the base-* packages have no dependencies at all
and cygwin itself depends on the base-* packages?  How would that change
your graph (and, can you create it for the release-2 dir, please?)


Corinna

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Corinna Vinschen                  Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to
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