From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 767 invoked by alias); 13 Nov 2014 19:47:38 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 732 invoked by uid 89); 13 Nov 2014 19:47:37 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-6.0 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,SPF_PASS autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 X-HELO: mail-in-07.arcor-online.net Received: from mail-in-07.arcor-online.net (HELO mail-in-07.arcor-online.net) (151.189.21.47) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with (CAMELLIA256-SHA encrypted) ESMTPS; Thu, 13 Nov 2014 19:47:36 +0000 Received: from mail-in-01-z2.arcor-online.net (mail-in-01-z2.arcor-online.net [151.189.8.13]) by mx.arcor.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id E16FE107B33 for ; Thu, 13 Nov 2014 20:47:32 +0100 (CET) Received: from mail-in-11.arcor-online.net (mail-in-11.arcor-online.net [151.189.21.51]) by mail-in-01-z2.arcor-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id D0A5F7DB392 for ; Thu, 13 Nov 2014 20:47:32 +0100 (CET) X-DKIM: Sendmail DKIM Filter v2.8.2 mail-in-11.arcor-online.net B631135A469 Received: from Rainer.invalid (pD9EB39C4.dip0.t-ipconnect.de [217.235.57.196]) (Authenticated sender: stromeko@arcor.de) by mail-in-11.arcor-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id B631135A469 for ; Thu, 13 Nov 2014 20:47:32 +0100 (CET) From: Achim Gratz To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Setup 2.774 texlive postinstall takes 10+ hours) References: <1414559159086-112282.post@n5.nabble.com> <319337147.20141029151332@yandex.ru> <1414708038168-112334.post@n5.nabble.com> <54567198.8000504@cornell.edu> <20141103102515.GS14051@calimero.vinschen.de> <87a948kvpw.fsf@Rainer.invalid> <20141104085958.GA4932@calimero.vinschen.de> <54618F4C.6000107@cygwin.com> <546191B0.4050808@cygwin.com> <20141111115343.GQ2782@calimero.vinschen.de> <20141113141804.GK2782@calimero.vinschen.de> <5464D258.5010906@cornell.edu> Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2014 19:47:00 -0000 In-Reply-To: <5464D258.5010906@cornell.edu> (Ken Brown's message of "Thu, 13 Nov 2014 10:46:32 -0500") Message-ID: <87h9y2ubl8.fsf@Rainer.invalid> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.4.51 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-SW-Source: 2014-11/txt/msg00325.txt.bz2 Ken Brown writes: > There's one final idea I'd like to throw out, possibly as an > alternative to Achim's perpetual postinstall scripts: It would be > useful to be able to specify that a certain package (such as > _autorebase, or my proposed _texlive_post) should always be selected > for *reinstall* whenever a package that depends on it is installed. That's roughly equivalent to what Debian calls postinstall triggers. Yes, these would be useful, but it requires some infrastructure in upset/genini and setup.exe that's simply not there yet. Regards, Achim. -- +<[Q+ Matrix-12 WAVE#46+305 Neuron microQkb Andromeda XTk Blofeld]>+ SD adaptations for KORG EX-800 and Poly-800MkII V0.9: http://Synth.Stromeko.net/Downloads.html#KorgSDada -- 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