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From: Steven Penny <svnpenn@gmail.com>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: mintty 2.9.9
Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2019 22:52:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5c9bfe8e.1c69fb81.1096a.cb9f@mx.google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <fe281b79-3ba1-0352-b73e-ab858d068d30@towo.net>

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.


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  parent reply	other threads:[~2019-03-27 22:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 41+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-03-16  9:35 Thomas Wolff
2019-03-16 14:01 ` Achim Gratz
2019-03-24 14:51   ` Steven Penny
2019-03-24 15:57   ` Thomas Wolff
2019-03-24 16:24     ` Brian Inglis
2019-03-24 18:19     ` Corinna Vinschen
2019-03-24 23:36       ` Thomas Wolff
2019-03-25  8:31         ` Corinna Vinschen
2019-03-25 18:12         ` Achim Gratz
2019-03-27 20:02           ` Thomas Wolff
2019-03-27 20:36             ` Achim Gratz
2019-03-27 21:01               ` Jeffrey Walton
2019-03-27 22:52             ` Steven Penny [this message]
2019-03-27 23:09               ` Yaakov Selkowitz
2019-03-28  1:12                 ` Steven Penny
2019-03-28  2:35                   ` Yaakov Selkowitz
2019-03-28  2:44                   ` Brian Inglis
2019-03-28  3:42                     ` Steven Penny
2019-03-28  7:34                       ` Thomas Wolff
2019-03-28 11:36                         ` Steven Penny
2019-03-28 15:09                           ` Brian Inglis
2019-03-28 18:22                           ` Dependancy Hell (was Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: mintty 2.9.9) Chris Wagner
2019-03-28 17:37                         ` [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: mintty 2.9.9 Achim Gratz
2019-03-27 22:59             ` Yaakov Selkowitz
2019-03-28  7:15               ` Björn Stabel
2019-03-28 17:40                 ` Achim Gratz
2019-03-28 18:08                   ` Thomas Wolff
2019-03-28 18:21                     ` Achim Gratz
2019-03-28 18:32                       ` Thomas Wolff
2019-03-28 19:47                         ` Achim Gratz
2019-03-28 21:38                           ` Thomas Wolff
2019-03-28  8:43               ` Thomas Wolff
2019-03-28  9:36                 ` Corinna Vinschen
2019-03-28 14:02                 ` Jeffrey Walton
2019-03-28 18:10                   ` Thomas Wolff
2019-03-28 18:16                     ` Vince Rice
2019-03-28 18:33                       ` Thomas Wolff
2019-03-28 18:43                         ` Vince Rice
2019-03-28 21:34                           ` Thomas Wolff
2019-03-28 22:28                             ` Steven Penny
2019-03-24 21:05     ` Andrey Repin

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