Jerry D. Hedden wrote: > There are still too many requires for this Version -9.
No, actually, there aren't. > Version -7 only required 'cygwin' and 'bash'. This is perfect. Those requires were wrong, given the as-shipped app-defaults/Rxvt. It uses -- and has used, for two years -- font-bitstream-vera-ttf. Except back then, that font was shipped as part of xorg-x11-fscl, which, had the old rxvt package required THAT, it would have pulled in ALL of X11. NOT acceptable, even if that meant rxvt's setup.hint was actually WRONG. But it was /bad/ for the setup.hint to be wrong. I could have reverted apps-default/Rxvt back to "fixed" or "Courier" or some such. But I didn't: === quote from cygwin-announce: "This release is intended to fix only one issue: the recent release of modular X made some file system changes such that rxvt could not find its system-default settings file. Now it can. This release does NOT attempt to address any other known bugs, and I still have a few patch submissions sitting in my queue. Those will probably be addressed during the cygwin-1.7 transition, not before." === end quote I /did/, however, fix the setup.hint file so that it was /correct/ -- especially as NOW, I can accurately require font-bitstream-vera-ttf and ONLY pull in a few font-related packages and NOT any of X11. We can discuss whether to remove the /previously existing/ but undocumented dependency on font-bitstream-vera-ttf later (see "during the cygwin-1.7 transition, not before") Until then, you can of course unselect within setup the packages you do not want, and then on the warning page, UNcheck the box that says, "Install these packages to meet dependencies (RECOMMENDED)". You'll only need to do this each time you upgrade rxvt -- which let's face it, isn't all that often. > Version -9 requires: cygwin bash coreutils font-bitstream-vera-ttf > Requiring coreutils seems okay although I don't know the reason for it. The preremove and postinstall scripts use "mv", "cp", and "touch". They always have. It just wasn't documented in the setup.hint requires: before now. Having inaccurate requires: lines plays havoc with setup.exe running postinstall scripts in the correct order. > However, font-bitstream-vera-ttf should be removed because it also > brings in the following: > fontconfig > mkfontdir > mkfontscale > libfontconfig1 > libfontenc1 > libfreetype26 Faulty logic. rxvt -- as currently packaged -- DOES require font-bitstream-vera-ttf, and that package DOES require all those others. Sure, AFTER installation, you can re-configure your version so that it doesn't use that font, and that's okay. But as-distributed, font-bitstream-vera-ttf is a requirement of rxvt*-9, as are those sub-dependencies. Again, whether this is advisable or not is something that can be discussed later. See http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2007-09/msg00373.html But removing those dependencies means actually *removing those dependencies* -- not simply neglecting to mention them in the setup.hint. > Further, when I tried to use Version -9, it used the wrong font and > the window background was blue instead of my defined black. > Obviously, it wasn't using my /home/$USER/.Xdefaults or rxvt searches both static const char *const xnames[2] = { ".Xdefaults", ".Xresources" }; If you are starting rxvt via a windows shortcut, then you need to have HOME defined as a windows environment variable (it usually isn't), not just set it in your ~/.bashrc -- if you want rxvt to know where "~/.Xdefaults" actually is. Rxvt doesn't explicitly use "/home/$USER/", it uses "getenv("HOME")/[.Xdefaults|.Xresources]". Note that you can also set XAPPLRESDIR to the appropriate app-defaults directory. The old startxwin.bat file did this, and set it to /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/app-defaults. The new startxwin.bat file doesn't set that variable at all. > /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/app-defaults/Rxvt. The whole point of this exercise was to use /etc/X11/app-defaults/Rxvt, because /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/app-defaults/ doesn't exist anymore. And the default version of the app-defaults file, located under /etc/, DOES specify a blue background. -- Chuck -- 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/
