On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 09:57:51AM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >On Aug 19 22:46, Christopher Faylor wrote: >> On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 06:48:44PM -0700, Brian Dessent wrote: >> >Can we special-case upset not to add _update-info-dir to the Cygwin >> >package? >> >> I'm not a big fan of special casing and in this case I don't have to. >> I just added a "noautodep: _update_info_dir" to cygwin's setup.hint. > >Cool. I'm curious how this changes the dependency order. > >> But we'll still get a dependency loop with base-passwd. I have removed >> that dependency in release. It looks like this isn't needed in >> release-2. > >I removed all dependencies from release-2/base-passwd except for >base-cygwin a couple of days ago. Hopefully we get to the point >where the base packages' postinstalls run first.
Keeping a base-dependency in cygwin would make setup want to run base-* before cygwin, though. Cygwin doesn't *really* depend on these packages (it doesn't need them to run) so I don't think they should be a dependency. cgf
