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From: Achim Gratz <Stromeko@nexgo.de>
To: cygwin-apps@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: setup and colons in filenames
Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2017 17:42:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87vaj1u7pl.fsf@Rainer.invalid> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <03e94ec4-db88-8997-40a0-1c63b1a010bd@dronecode.org.uk> (Jon	Turney's message of "Thu, 26 Oct 2017 17:14:05 +0100")

Jon Turney writes:
> This seems a really odd thing to do, as we've no idea about the
> dependencies of these packages, so installing them is unlikely work
> well.

This particular code path was vetoed from getting thrown out last time I
worked in that area since it would break long-standing expectations
w.r.t. local package archoves that have no setup.ini or even *.hint.

> I'm kind of tempted to remove this mis-feature.

In a properly maintained mirror or local archive it is a mis-feature.  I
was told not everyone wants to have to do the extra steps of doing that
maintenance.  At least if we detect what should be a proper package repo
we don't additionally look at all the files anymore.


Regards,
Achim.
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2017-10-26 17:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-10-25 15:50 Ken Brown
2017-10-25 19:23 ` Jon Turney
2017-10-25 20:16   ` Corinna Vinschen
2017-10-25 20:36     ` Jon Turney
2017-10-25 21:00       ` Corinna Vinschen
2017-10-26 16:14         ` Jon Turney
2017-10-26 16:14   ` Jon Turney
2017-10-26 17:04     ` Ken Brown
2017-10-26 17:20       ` Jon Turney
2017-10-26 17:42     ` Achim Gratz [this message]
2017-10-26 17:49       ` Jon Turney
2017-10-26 18:25         ` Achim Gratz
2017-10-27  8:47           ` Corinna Vinschen
2017-10-27 10:40             ` Achim Gratz
2017-10-27 13:44               ` Jon Turney
2017-10-27 15:20                 ` Ken Brown
2017-10-27 16:28                   ` Corinna Vinschen
2017-10-27 13:43           ` Jon Turney

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