On Wed, 2019-03-27 at 15:51 -0700, Steven Penny wrote: > On Wed, 27 Mar 2019 21:02:47, Thomas Wolff wrote: > > >>> mintty requires: bash cygwin > > I remember some discussion that the cygwin dependency, which most > > packages have, should not (or does not need to be) listed. > > And in fact, mintty does not depend on bash. Why does cygport think so? > > Uh, Mintty definitely *does* depend on Bash, what makes you think it doesnt? > As a simple test case, rename Bash and try to run Mintty. You get this: > > Failed to run '/bin/bash': No such file or directory > /bin/bash: Exit 126.
"Only" if /bin/bash is your preferred shell. Granted, that's the default, and what most users would want anyway, but that is not strictly speaking a mintty dependency. As I mentioned in my response, the auto-detected dependency on bash is from mintheme. -- Yaakov -- 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