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
