From: Gene Pavlovsky <gene.pavlovsky@gmail.com>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: Native symlinks and setup.exe
Date: Tue, 04 Oct 2016 20:54:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAPTiy3M+C9H41K65e0Dyqqc+AUismTrPGwmoCmNQc=-Gv++NYQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CA+Fg1xbhdZkexKwEFYmy-BtQdV5ZPYOeJC9K-F0Kdh0V701zBg@mail.gmail.com>
That is a good point as well, however I'm not sure what are the
opinions of Cygwin's "elders".
Would everyone vote for creating a policy like that and pushing it to
the package maintainers?
A political discussion is what I'm trying to start here :)
On 4 October 2016 at 17:56, Gerrit Haase <gerrit.haase@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello Gene,
>
> in my opinion, it is not a setup.exe or tar problem, but I think
> packages should not include symlinks at all. All can be created
> postinstallation by the postinstall script, inside Cygwin and the
> users environment it is running on.
>
> Obviously, a political discussion is required, to decide whether it is
> ok, as is, or if a change in package logic would have benefits.
>
>
> Regards,
> Gerrit
>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-10-04 20:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-10-01 18:49 Gene Pavlovsky
2016-10-01 21:56 ` Vlado
2016-10-02 6:27 ` Herbert Stocker
2016-10-02 11:48 ` Thorsten Kampe
2016-10-02 23:35 ` Gene Pavlovsky
2016-10-03 18:26 ` Thorsten Kampe
2016-10-04 6:57 ` Gene Pavlovsky
2016-10-04 8:15 ` Vlado
2016-10-04 20:42 ` Gene Pavlovsky
2016-10-04 19:21 ` Gerrit Haase
2016-10-04 20:54 ` Gene Pavlovsky [this message]
2016-10-04 21:04 ` Vince Rice
2016-10-04 21:20 ` Eric Blake
2016-10-04 23:15 ` Gene Pavlovsky
2016-10-05 3:03 ` Gene Pavlovsky
2016-10-04 19:39 ` Linda Walsh
2016-10-02 20:08 ` Andrey Repin
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