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.ha...@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 > > -- > 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
