Re: Merging cygwin-utils and cygwin-utils-extra?

Hi Josh,

On 8/15/2025 2:31 AM, Joshuah Hurst via Cygwin-apps wrote:
> Could the packages cygwin-utils and cygwin-utils-extra be merged,
> please? MSYS2 already did this, and it's always annoying that there is
> a little set of tools in an extra package. I could understand the
> separation from a disk space point of view in the 1990, but with
> today's 256GB SSD disks in low end laptops, it doesn't make much sense
> anymore.
That hadn't occurred to me, nor has anyone else suggested it.  It does 
make sense though.

I'm in the process of building an update for cygutils-extra, so that 
will be done as it has been in the past.  But I'll consider combining 
the three cygutils packages into one for later releases.
Thanks for the input,

..mark