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Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] New package: getent-2.18.90-1
- From: Andrew Schulman <schulman dot andrew at epa dot gov>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2014 10:42:25 -0500
- Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] New package: getent-2.18.90-1
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> On Feb 24 14:29, Adam Dinwoodie wrote:
> > On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 08:19:20PM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> > > I just uploaded the new getent package to the 32 and 64 bit distros.
> >
> > Getent is included in Base, but it has a dependency on libargp, which is
> > only in Devel and Libs. At least that's the case for the 32-bit
> > packages; I've not checked 64-bit. Can/should we lift that dependency,
> > or add libargp to Base as well?
>
> The dependency can't be lifted becasue getent actually uses libargp.
> Since setup pulls in this dependency automatically, I don't see a
> big problem here.
I think it's better to leave libargp out of Base. Although the dependency
from getent effectvely makes it a required package, it's not intrinsically
required. If in the future getent stops using it, it will automatically go
back to being optional again.
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