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RE: Where is getclip?
- From: "Lemke, Michael SZ/HZA-ZSW" <lemkemch at schaeffler dot com>
- To: "cygwin at cygwin dot com" <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Wed, 19 Jun 2013 14:51:17 +0000
- Subject: RE: Where is getclip?
On Wed, 19 Jun 2013 10:28:10 -0400 Charles Wilson wrote:
>On 6/19/2013 10:16 AM, Lemke, Michael SZ/HZA-ZSW wrote:
>> On Wed, 19 Jun 2013 10:06:49 -0400 Charles Wilson wrote:
>>> On 6/19/2013 9:59 AM, Lemke, Michael SZ/HZA-ZSW wrote:
>>>> Is that intended?
>>>
>>> Yes. Install cygutils-extra. See:
>>> http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-announce/2013-06/msg00007.html
>>>
>> Thanks for the quick reply, I found it. Nevertheless, all I did was updating
> > cygwin and suddenly installed stuff was gone. Not funny.
>
>Ordinarily, package splits such as this one would ALSO incorporate
>modifications to the package requirements list, so that this sort of
>thing doesn't happen.
>
...
>
>However, the purpose of this package split was specifically to *cut
>down* on the default installation footprint of cygutils
I expected something like that after reading your reply.
>
>Which means..."I updated cygwin and suddenly installed stuff was gone".
>There just wasn't any better solution available.
Hm, couldn't you just have introduced a new package, say, cygbaseutils
and remove cygutils entirely? At least, I would have noticed something's
different while updating.
>Sorry for the trouble.
No problem. And I am out of here as I am currently not subscribed and
don't want to keep breaking the threads here.
Michael
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