----- Original Message ----- From: "Gary R Van Sickle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Just something to keep in mind here: the texmf .tar.gz is somewhere on the > order of 30MB. wget sucks it down quite adequately over a modem or 1/2ISDN > here in the good ol' US of A, but rarely without a few restartable retries. > Until Cygwin's setup gets such functionality, my guess is it would probably > cause more grief than it cures to add it as a package, just due to its size.
That sounds like a good reason to have it as a separate package to the binaries. Once such a package is mirrored, you can download it quite happily from your nearest mirror. As for setup... patches welcome :]. Rob -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
