On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 05:58:39PM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >You're fixing single symptoms, rather than taking out the core problem.
The proposed fix is to remove *valid* dependencies because they are causing setup.exe to behave in ways that are undesirable. That is not an actual fix for the core problem. It's a band-aid. If the dependencies for _update-info-dir were removed and someone carefully unselected everything and selected only, say, bash and openssh, trusting setup.exe dependency handling, then the end result would be an _update-info-dir postinstall that displays errors. If bash was made to not rely on _update-info-dir then there would be no errors, there would be one less package to download, and "info bash" would still work but "info" would not. I think that's a lot more desirable than a postinstall script that shows inexplicable errors. cgf