Mark, As always, patches are thoughtfully considered (eventually). However, this may not be as easy as you think, since the package tarballs themselves aren't downloaded until they are selected by the user in setup. So, that external search page at <http://cygwin.com/packages/> is there for a reason... Igor
On Thu, 3 Apr 2003, Mark P. Esplin wrote: > A nice addition to cygwin setup.exe would be a search capability for packages > and files like is in the KDE package manager KPackage. As the number of > packages increases it becomes harder and harder to find what you are looking > for. > -Mark Esplin > > On Wednesday 02 April 2003 03:51 pm, Randall R Schulz wrote: > > Hi, Everybody! > > > > (with a Dr. Nick Riviera intonation) > > > > With the Monty Python "Spam" song intonation: > > > > FAQ, FAQ, FAQ, FAQ > > FAQ, FAQ, FAQ, FAQ > > > > But in keeping with my policy of not taunting or scolding without > > including a constructive answer, go here: > > <http://cygwin.com/packages/>. For best results, use as much as you > > know about the name. The search is a non-anchored grep pattern match > > against the package content lists. File suffixes can help, but beware > > that some standard command names are symlinks or scripts, so a ".exe" > > suffix will not be present in those cases. -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! Knowledge is an unending adventure at the edge of uncertainty. -- Leto II
