From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 46812 invoked by alias); 28 Mar 2019 02:35:48 -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 46803 invoked by uid 89); 28 Mar 2019 02:35:48 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-1.5 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,KAM_NUMSUBJECT,SPF_HELO_PASS autolearn=no version=3.3.1 spammy=H*M:cygwin, 2.9.9, mintty, ANNOUNCEMENT X-HELO: mx1.redhat.com Received: from mx1.redhat.com (HELO mx1.redhat.com) (209.132.183.28) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Thu, 28 Mar 2019 02:35:47 +0000 Received: from smtp.corp.redhat.com (int-mx06.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com [10.5.11.16]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx1.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTPS id B3895307EA9F for ; Thu, 28 Mar 2019 02:35:45 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ovpn-121-162.rdu2.redhat.com (ovpn-121-162.rdu2.redhat.com [10.10.121.162]) by smtp.corp.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 608685C582 for ; Thu, 28 Mar 2019 02:35:45 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: mintty 2.9.9 From: Yaakov Selkowitz To: cygwin@cygwin.com Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2019 02:35:00 -0000 In-Reply-To: <5c9c1f84.1c69fb81.9bb31.82c2@mx.google.com> References: <5c9c1f84.1c69fb81.9bb31.82c2@mx.google.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" User-Agent: Evolution 3.30.5 (3.30.5-1.fc29) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2019-03/txt/msg00618.txt.bz2 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 -- 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