Cygwin 1.7: Possible error in /etc/postinstall/rxvt.sh

Sun Jun 21 05:02:00 GMT 2009

>> That having been said...rxvt is stealing a march by assuming
> /etc/X11/app-defaults/ exists. It's not clear -- if all the other
> packages did it the "rxvt way" -- WHO exactly should be responsible for
> creating the directory.
>>
1. 'rxvt' is advertised as being available without X, so
 it cannot depend on X installation actions, can it?
2. What are packages' responsibilities are with respect
 to 'setup.exe'? Naive users should be able to install
 the base set of packages without any errors appearing
 in /var/log/setup.log*, correct? And they should be
 able immediately upon successfully installing the base
 set of packages, be able to un-install that set of packages
 without any errors appearing in /var/log/setup.log, I
 would expect.
3. If each of the packages was during installation to adopt the
 responsibility of:
 - Checking for every directory it needs
 - If the directory (tree) does not exist, create it
 - Populating the directories with the files it uses
 and then during un-installation, un-do what it did
 during installation:
 - Remove any (non-modified configuration) files
 - Remove any directory (trees) that it created
 during installation (using
 'rmdir --ignore-fail-on-non-empty')
 then 'setup.exe' ought to be able to install/uninstall
 reproducibly without errors.
> I'll enhance the rxvt postinstall script to handle that in a future release.
>
Thank you.
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