I and my colleagues share the opinion that the setup should include an option to install ALL the packages with or without source automatically...
It is a huge pain to manually go through all the packages selecting them repeatedly since the most recent version isn't always the first to appear. Perhaps a suggestion made earlier on this list by someone whose name i have forgotten could be implemented: The setup could be controlled on the commandline too perhaps with a filename as an argument. The file could contain all the options required. Stephano. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Charles Wilson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Mark Jones" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, November 27, 2001 6:34 PM Subject: Re: New Install May Have a Bug > Remember all of those complaints on the mailing list about "cygwin is > too big"? Remember the acrimony that resulted when we (the list) > declared that we only support installations that included EVERY cygwin > package? > > The reason was because we had no ability to manage dependencies from > setup.exe. > > The new setup DOES handle dependencies, so if you select 'vim' you'll > automatically get 'ncurses', etc. Therefore, we can now allow/support > partial installations. > > Concommitant with that, the default installation is now a bare minimum > of packages -- if you want more, you have to explicitly select the > additional packages. > > --Chuck > > > Mark Jones wrote: > > > I tried to install Cygwin at a friend's last night and after it finished he > > did not have the program "less" installed, and his whole cygwin directory > > structure was only about 32 MB in size after the install. I do not have a > > clean install as a reference point as I've already installed XFree86 on my > > own computer, but my /bin directory is over 50 MB, so if his whole directory > > structure is only 32 MB I suspect he is missing more than just "less". > > > > I have helped others install it on their computers in the past (2-3 months > > ago) and have never had a problem, so I think something may have been broken > > recently in the install program. I noticed the package listing interface is > > different now that a few months back, so I assume that part has changed, > > perhaps with an additional feature of a new bug. > > > > Mark > > > > > > > > > > > > ____________________________________________________________________________ __ > > Send a friend your Buddy Card and stay in contact always with Excite Messenger > > http://messenger.excite.com > > > > > > > > -- > > 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/ > > > > > > > > -- > 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/ > -- 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/
