[Xastir] Cygwin

[Curt, WE7U]

On Mon, 12 Apr 2004, Henk de Groot wrote:

> It looks like I jumped into a transition at Cygwin, they moved everything
> from the XFree86 Category to a new X11 Category and all packages that were
> prefixed with XFree86 are now prefixed with xorg-x11. Xwinclip turned up
> there too (although I still think its not needed when I look at the comment).
>
> The old XFree packages are now in the ZZZRemovedPackages Category and are
> basically empty, this sort of "uninstalls" them so the xorg-x11 packages
> can be installed safely without side-effects later on when the user decides
> to uninstall the XFree86 packages - it can be done safely when the packages
> do not contain any files anymore.
>
> The only "active" XFree86 package I still see is XFree86-lib-compat.
> Selection of X-startup-scripts still causes selection of a few of the
> "Removed" packages, I guess they are not 100% finished with the transition.
>
> Anyway, the Readme needs an update...

Ok, thanks.  I just tweaked it, but it sounds like I'll have to do
some more soon.

Perhaps I should ask for a Cygwin/Windows Xastir person to send me
updates to the docs regularly.  I must seek out a Windows box to
check things periodically.  I tend not to do that often enough.

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