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Date:	Wed, 05 Dec 2001 13:11:13 -0500
From:	Charles Wilson <cwilson AT ece DOT gatech DOT edu>
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To:	Robert Collins <robert DOT collins AT itdomain DOT com DOT au>
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Subject:	Re: cygutils: Category
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Robert Collins wrote:

> Chuck,
>     Misc as a category acts like base: things in it always install.


Oh, that makes sense -- given that things without a setup.ini entry are 
placed in misc by default.  Without that behavior, installing from a 
local collection of tarballs won't work.

> 
> I guess this isn't documented clearly anywhere except the cygdev
> archives, so I'll correct that soon.


Please do. :-)

I guess nothing should go in Misc, then.  If we WANT stuff to always 
install, then it should be in Base (the category == meta-package, "base" 
is a special case, yadda yadda yadda).  Misc should be RESERVED for the 
"no setup.ini entry, must be an special package the user put in their 
local repository" case.

> 
> Can I suggest that the cygutils packages belongs in (shock horror) Utils


Done.

--Chuck

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