On Tue, Apr 20, 2004 at 01:46:08AM -0400, Rodrigo Medina wrote: > 1- In the list of packages include its size. It is very important > for people with slow connexions, so they can easily program > what to download and in which order. For example you may decide > not to download an updated 16MB fonts package with minor changes. > Right now you discover that the package has 16MB only after the > downloading of that package has started. Then you have to abort > setup and start again. (This is related to point 2-).
The setup.ini file shows the package sizes, and is in a human-readable format. It also has descriptions of the packages. > 2- When you are downloading into a temporal directory, SETUP > downloads the packages even if they are already in the temporal > directory but are still not installed. I think this is a real nuisance. It never does this for me; if files have been fully downloaded they are not downloaded again. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/