On Nov 19 10:50, Yaakov (Cygwin Ports) wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA256 > > Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > I'm not talking about providing symlinks to all binaries in > > /usr/X11R6/bin, just xauth. It's the one serious X application called > > from other applications for authentication purposes. The current > > transition method breaks using older OpenSSH with newer X11 and vice > > versa. That's why I think a symlink created in the postinstall script > > of the package providing xauth would be helpful. > > I thought we only supported the latest release of packages anyway, and > AFAIK openssh is the only package outside of X11 that calls xauth. But > I hear what you're saying and keep it in mind if the issue is raised. > > > Ultimately it's your decision of course. > > Once I dug further into the matter[1], I found that it doesn't help all > that much anyway unless I revert a change in XWin. At least this will > make it possible, and not give people misleading warnings. > > [1] http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-xfree/2008-11/msg00154.html
Duly noted. As I said, it's your decision. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- 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/
