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Re: setup
- From: Achim Gratz <Stromeko at nexgo dot de>
- To: cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com
- Date: Mon, 10 Aug 2015 18:40:01 +0200
- Subject: Re: setup
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Warren Young writes:
> But thatâs a side issue, because I donât see why you think you need
> Busybox in the first place, unless it is to be able to run postinst
> scripts. Canât you just say that that setup-*.tar.xz package never
> has a postinst script, so that all you need to do is un-tar it?
The idea was that you have a fairly complete POSIX environment with as
small a footprint as possible, then use that to bootstrap a more
conventionally styled Cygwin install.
> In that sense, setup.exe is already bootstrapped: it has everything
> within itself to be able to replace itself.
I do like the concept of a self-contained executable, but teaching
setup.exe new tricks is likely a larger effort than adding a script here
and there to an install system.
Regards,
Achim.
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