On Jul 23 03:20, Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote: > On 2013-07-23 02:22, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > >On Jul 23 17:47, Ryan Johnson wrote: > >>On 07/22/2013 05:38 PM, Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote: > >>>gcc is only a source-only meta-package; you want to install > >>>gcc-core, gcc-g++, etc. > >>Oh, that's a little different than (a) the name suggests and (b) > >>historical precedent, which IIRC had "gcc" as a meta package that > >>pulled in all the other gcc-related stuff you'd need. > >> > >>Anyway, thanks for the tip, I'll try that. > > > >Shouldn't we introduce an empty gcc binary archive for just this > >situation? > > This is one case where IMO genini is better than upset: > genini-generated setup.ini's don't list source-only packages in > setup's package selector, while still being available through the > "Src" option of any of its subpackages. Could upset be changed to > match, which would avoid this problem for *all* source-only > packages?
I guess so, but this is one for Chris. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Maintainer cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple