From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 36353 invoked by alias); 4 Oct 2016 20:42:03 -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 36340 invoked by uid 89); 4 Oct 2016 20:42:02 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=0.1 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_05,FREEMAIL_FROM,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,RCVD_IN_SORBS_SPAM,SPF_PASS autolearn=no version=3.3.2 spammy=vote, gerrithaasegmailcom, sk:gerrit, gerrit.haase@gmail.com X-HELO: mail-io0-f182.google.com Received: from mail-io0-f182.google.com (HELO mail-io0-f182.google.com) (209.85.223.182) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Tue, 04 Oct 2016 20:41:52 +0000 Received: by mail-io0-f182.google.com with SMTP id i202so85154603ioi.2 for ; Tue, 04 Oct 2016 13:41:52 -0700 (PDT) X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20130820; h=x-gm-message-state:mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date :message-id:subject:to; bh=B9og9a8+2Id2pi8LUWCMt3hhkVSxXy1ZZaErPsn3XUE=; b=UUix9zllbEkbU7Og7NmAg9pEkqSTr9UClu2T9NeQ6qTiWJajZ0F0OZKEjAws2sMw0Q m0bxK6L+kTsMhXwHP47DJHFb8O9PJTzc4R2Ht2mnFYidG7w5izPxk9PMV+gyDb9zTRvZ amTsQMErMd9lpHfC/LpJhpqlXcW6/HwBgtBbil6M1By6qspLeK8TJ2JAl1YadDKNh6Rd POuw0p0unIDnHAVkPCNGCBRRMODohdmD/k3t7V1y6aDdHMXUGnaIn5zoP3iapwZam0p9 quGnKc0Yw71BYyzXurKMCUT7xSx7it2avzNBwSw9p0NbY0QUbXKiShWhIAViL72vJzkp SRJA== X-Gm-Message-State: AA6/9RnnE14yQYm+1nS4pIOv3+gSH44xUHHfcYGllHCl6BsNJqyvURGh1LjggNYKHQg5pdQGrWKd98qKkK4LeA== X-Received: by 10.107.142.147 with SMTP id q141mr6124876iod.67.1475613711050; Tue, 04 Oct 2016 13:41:51 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.79.6.195 with HTTP; Tue, 4 Oct 2016 13:41:50 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: From: Gene Pavlovsky Date: Tue, 04 Oct 2016 20:54:00 -0000 Message-ID: Subject: Re: Native symlinks and setup.exe To: cygwin@cygwin.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2016-10/txt/msg00050.txt.bz2 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 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 > > -- > 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 > -- 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