On 28 February 2008 15:05, Jerry D. Hedden wrote: >> It's a minor bug, there is no workaround at the moment apart from to >> manually set the package to "Skip" in the chooser. Frankly it's a hundred >> times quicker and easier to just let it install, the package is tiny. > > My problem is that colordiff requires Perl, and I build my own version > of Perl and don't want it downloaded via setup.exe. Hence why I > brought it up.
Oh, ouch. Maybe until we get this sorted out we should remove the dependencies. > What is the bug? > > Where is the mandatory/optional flags for modules? Nobody's quite sure where exactly the bug is yet, but how it's /supposed/ to work is that everything in the "Base" category is mandatory, and everything else is optional. cheers, DaveK -- Can't think of a witty .sigline today.... -- 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/