> On Feb 24 14:29, Adam Dinwoodie wrote: > > On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 08:19:20PM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > > I just uploaded the new getent package to the 32 and 64 bit distros. > > > > Getent is included in Base, but it has a dependency on libargp, which is > > only in Devel and Libs. At least that's the case for the 32-bit > > packages; I've not checked 64-bit. Can/should we lift that dependency, > > or add libargp to Base as well? > > The dependency can't be lifted becasue getent actually uses libargp. > Since setup pulls in this dependency automatically, I don't see a > big problem here.
I think it's better to leave libargp out of Base. Although the dependency from getent effectvely makes it a required package, it's not intrinsically required. If in the future getent stops using it, it will automatically go back to being optional again. -- 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
