On Mon, Jul 11, 2005 at 08:36:55PM -0700, Brian Dessent wrote: >Christopher Faylor wrote: > >> >So, anyone who installs rebase will also need to install bash. That >> ash >> >seems unfortunate to me. It means we can never deprecate ash. > >Since cygcheck already has capability for reading package file lists >(/etc/setup/*.lst.gz) do you think it would be sensible to move the >'rebaseall' logic into cygcheck, so that we don't need a shell? But I >suppose that doesn't get around the issue of not being able to run it >from a bash CMD prompt as you can currently. Though I guess it could be >installed as a shortcut on the startup menu or something.
No, this really has nothing to do with the concept of "checking" cygwin, so I don't think it's appropriate here. OTOH, writing a mingw C program to do what rebaseall does wouldn't be *that* hard. cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
