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Christopher Faylor wrote:
>> Actually, I was debating removing this from cygport and letting
>> _update-info-dir take care of these, as this would appear to
>> significantly reduce the number of postinstall scripts.
> 
> I think it's a good idea to just let _update-info-dir take care of this.
> It's going to run anyway so you end up just running install-info twice.

Well, one of the problems with both cygport's current automatic handling 
of info files, and the _update-info-dir metapackage, is that nobody ever 
runs install-info --remove. And really, I don't see any way a 
metapackage like _update-info-dir could ever do so -- How does it know 
what I *used* to have installed, that now is installed no longer?  It 
can't parse my existing dir file, can it?

Which is why I tend to (a) rely on cygport's automatic postinstall 
scripts, or (b) use explicit postinstalls.  And, when I'm being REALLY 
conscientious, also an explicit preremove.

--
Chuck

P.S. I've added a 'requires: bash coreutils' line to terminfo's 
setup.hint on sourceware. I'll also make sure the next package includes 
that change.

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