Default Install Packages -- libX11 ??

Charles Wilson cygwin@cwilson.fastmail.fm
Mon May 6 13:40:00 GMT 2013


On 5/6/2013 9:36 AM, marco atzeri wrote:
> Il 5/6/2013 9:33 AM, Achim Gratz ha scritto:
>> Patrick Herbst writes:
>>> This happens even when not installing Xorg.  Why is this?
>>
>> Due to cygwin-utils requesting desktop-file-utils, which in turn requires
>> libglib2.0_0, which requires dbus and that finally ends up pulling in
>> libX11_6.
>
> IMHO
> the first step should be verified, Base packages should only
> require other Base ones.

Agreed. desktop-file-utils should be an optional item for cygutils, and 
cygutils' behavior should gracefully degrade if the package is missing. 
I'll look into it.

--
Chuck



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