Re: Cygwin 1.7: Possible error in /etc/postinstall/rxvt.sh

[Mark Harig <idirectscm at aim dot com>]

> That having been said...rxvt is stealing a march by assuming
> /etc/X11/app-defaults/ exists.  It's not clear -- if all the other
> packages did it the "rxvt way" -- WHO exactly should be responsible for
> creating the directory.
>
>   


1. 'rxvt' is advertised as being available without X, so
    it cannot depend on X installation actions, can it?

2. What are packages' responsibilities are with respect
   to 'setup.exe'?  Naive users should be able to install
   the base set of packages without any errors appearing
   in /var/log/setup.log*, correct?  And they should be
   able immediately upon successfully installing the base
   set of packages, be able to un-install that set of packages
   without any errors appearing in /var/log/setup.log, I
   would expect.

3. If each of the packages was during installation to adopt the
   responsibility of:

        - Checking for every directory it needs
        - If the directory (tree) does not exist, create it
        - Populating the directories with the files it uses

   and then during un-installation, un-do what it did
   during installation:

       - Remove any (non-modified configuration) files
       - Remove any directory (trees) that it created
         during installation (using
         'rmdir --ignore-fail-on-non-empty')

    then 'setup.exe' ought to be able to install/uninstall
    reproducibly without errors.

> I'll enhance the rxvt postinstall script to handle that in a future release.
>   

Thank you.


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