On Aug 27 14:35, Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 07:14:32PM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > >Anybody having another funny idea? > > Your patch may be a good idea but I still think that base-cygwin (and > maybe base-passwd) should be a dependency of every package in the > distribution. I think that every package which currently relies on > cygwin should instead rely on base-cygwin and every package which does > not have a cygwin dependency (and there are a quite a few of those) > should be forced to rely on base-cygwin. > > In my experiments, that forces base-cygwin first in the dependency order > without any setup.exe changes required.
That really shouldn't be necessary. cygwin is the only package depending on base-cygwin and if every other package depends on cygwin, base-cygwin should go first, too. If it doesn't, it's still a problem of the dependency algorithm. If we can't make sure that the algorithm works as we need it to, it would be a lot of change with questionable outcome. You'd never know if a new package or a different package selection wouldn't screw up the order again. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat
