Re: Merging cygwin-utils and cygwin-utils-extra?
Christian Franke via Cygwin-apps <[email protected]>
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Mark Geisert via Cygwin-apps wrote: > 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, > AFAICS the split has been done 12+ years ago to resolve some dependency problems of a "Base" installation. Discussion thread started May 2013: https://sourceware.org/pipermail/cygwin/2013-May/208461.html with 2 followups in June: https://sourceware.org/pipermail/cygwin/2013-June/208573.html -- Regards, Christian