Re: [HEADSUP] Base category

[Ken Brown <kbrown at cornell dot edu>]

On 12/6/2014 11:57 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> Hi,
>
> isn't it rather annoying that even Base packages have dependencies
> outside the Base category?  So, even if I perform a plain Base-only
> installation, I get asked if dependencies shall be fullfilled, which, as
> a question, is more than borderline anyway.
>
> Therefore, shouldn't we put all packages Base packages depend on into
> Base as well?

That makes sense to me.  The popup about dependencies could be confusing 
for someone installing Cygwin for the first time.

> Also, can we automate this?

I'm not sure that's a good idea.  If the dependencies of a Base package 
change, it's probably good for this to be noticeable, in case it was due 
to a packaging error.

Ken