Re: WSL-4.0 release candidate

Keith Marshall <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.gnu.mingw.devel
Organization MinGW Project
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 04/03/13 19:44, Earnie Boyd wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 4, 2013 at 12:13 PM, Keith Marshall wrote:
>> On 02/03/13 16:41, Earnie Boyd wrote:
>>> How about:
>>>
>>> rc_mingwrt-4.0-1-mingw32-rc-1-dev.tar.lzma
>>>
>>> or
>>>
>>> mingwrt-4.0-1-rc_mingw32-rc-1-dev.tar.lzma
>>>
>>> Would either of these produce the result I'm looking for?
>>
>> Either may, but the former is unacceptable.
>
> Why is it unacceptable.  I tested it and it actually works well.

It may *appear* to work, but you now have two disparate and conflicting 
packages, each claiming to own (at least a subset of) the same payload 
of installed files.  Install one, or the other, and things will surely 
appear to work out okay.  Even install both together, and it may still 
seem to work.  Now, with both installed, remove just one, and you'll 
break the other.

You are creating a scenario in which mingw-get must lose track of what 
files have been installed by which package; IOW, a recipe for confusion 
and potential problems down the line.

-- 
Regards,
Keith.

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