[HEADSUP] Base category

[Ken Brown]

On 12/6/2014 12:57 PM, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Dec  6 12:40, Ken Brown wrote:
>> 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.
>
> ACK.
>
>>> 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.
>
> Uh, I was only talking about automating to add the categories to all
> affected packages once and get a list of packages to send to this list.

I just did a test install on each architecture and extracted the info 
from setup.log.

Both arches:
============
_autorebase
_update-info-dir
bzip2
ca-certificates
groff
less
libargp
libattr1
libblkid1
libbz2_1
libffi6
libgcc1
libgdbm4
libgmp10
libiconv
libiconv2
libintl8
liblzma5
libmpfr4
libncursesw10
libopenssl100
libp11-kit0
libpcre1
libpipeline1
libpopt0
libsmartcols1
libstdc++6
libtasn1_6
libuuid1
lynx
p11-kit
p11-kit-trust
popt
xz
zlib0

32-bit only:
============
libcharset1
libncurses10

64-bit only:
============
libreadline7

Ken