On Wed, 2003-02-26 at 22:48, Thorsten Kampe wrote: > So you're telling me that > > a) there is no particular reason why the Cygwin creators made a "Base > Category" (different to all other categories (Editors, Shells))
There was a very long discussion on the cygwin-apps list about the categories, and what should in Base. I *strongly* suggest you review that before continuing this discussion. > I don't know these reasons for all those Base packages. But the > reasons are in my opinion not trivial. Omitting tar for example hasn't > simply the effect "so you cannot use tar" but "so you cannot install > via setup.exe, because the installation packages are tarred (and > bzipped)"[1] > > Thorsten > > [1] This is an assumption, because I don't think setup.exe has builtin > "tar.bz2" support And assumptions are very dangerous, because setup *precisely* has builting tar and bzip2 (thus tar.bz2) support. Rob -- GPG key available at: <http://users.bigpond.net.au/robertc/keys.txt>.
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