On May 26 13:09, Andy Koppe wrote: > On 26 May 2011 12:51, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > That begs for the question why the start menu entry isn't managed > > entirely by mintty's postinstall/preremove scripts. In theory we can > > reduce setup to ask for the desktop icon. The start menu entry is > > always created, and it's always created by mintty. That would make the > > entire affair much easier, isn't it? > > Good point. The only argument against that I can think of is that the > postinstall script shortcut is non-optional. There have been some > minor complaints about that before. > > (Setup.exe would still need to nuke "Cygwin Bash Shell").
I'm willing to ignore both problems. Mintty isn't the only package to fill the Cygwin or Cygwin/X menu. Removing an existent Cygwin Bash Shell seems a bit harsh. But that's just me. What do other think? Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat
