----- Original Message ----- From: "Earnie Boyd" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin-developers/2001-06/msg00098.html is > > the message where Misc is suggested by cgf. > > > > I see, I chimed in on that thread. I didn't know though it would be a > required download. Hopefully, this can be remedied in the future.
IMO once we have self-describing packages - a la rpm/deb then the local-install functionality can change radically - we make two statements: 1) If you want current local install w/no setup.ini behaviour, save your current setup.exe. It's going away. 2) Local installs w/no setup.ini get all the important package metadata, including categories and dependencies by reading the metadata from the local packages. We also provide a simple tool to add that metadata when creating those packages. (and yes, it is possible that those packages will be pure rpm/deb files, but that is an orthogonal issue). Rob