On Feb 28 18:31, Kostya Altukhov wrote: > On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 6:19 PM, Dave Korn wrote: > > > My problem is that colordiff requires Perl, and I build my own version > > > of Perl and don't want it downloaded via setup.exe. Hence why I > > > brought it up. > > > > Oh, ouch. Maybe until we get this sorted out we should remove the > > dependencies. > > It is probably better to fix the bug itself than to remove the dependencies :) > > I've actually looked in setup.exe source and I found this piece of code: > > if (installed > || categories.find ("Base") != categories.end () > || categories.find ("Misc") != categories.end ()) > { > desired = default_version; > > So by default setup attempts to install all packages in categories > Base and Misc. Why category Misc is treated as required? Maybe it > should be removed from this 'if'. But that requires changing > setup.exe, so the simplest fix would be just to change the category > for colordiff from Misc to Utils (like it was in the ITP).
It's in "Utils" now. Somebody already changed that on cygwin.com a couple of hours ago. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/