From: Yaakov Selkowitz <yselkowitz@cygwin.com>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: mintty 2.9.9
Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2019 02:35:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ed317e32598d54c2cf90010061067d83de3cb810.camel@cygwin.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5c9c1f84.1c69fb81.9bb31.82c2@mx.google.com>
On Wed, 2019-03-27 at 18:12 -0700, Steven Penny wrote:
> On Wed, 27 Mar 2019 19:09:07, Yaakov Selkowitz wrote:
> > "Only" if /bin/bash is your preferred shell. Granted, that's the
> > default, and what most users would want anyway, but that is not
> > strictly speaking a mintty dependency. As I mentioned in my response,
> > the auto-detected dependency on bash is from mintheme.
>
> Mintty requires some shell, hopefully that point cannot be argued.
We don't have virtual dependencies though, so there's no real way to
express that.
> Having said that, Bash is the obvious candidate as its the only login shell
> installed by default.
Which is exactly why I'm *not* concerned about this being listed
explicitly.
> While adding Bash as a dependency could be somewhat misleading, It would argue
> it is more misleading to say that it requires no shell, which is the current
> state of affairs.
I obviously disagree.
--
Yaakov
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-03-28 2:35 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
2019-03-27 23:09 ` Yaakov Selkowitz
2019-03-28 1:12 ` Steven Penny
2019-03-28 2:35 ` Yaakov Selkowitz [this message]
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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