Heya, Christopher,
Thanks for the quick response. k ____________________________________________________ Keith Green, Research Staff Member / Simulation Center Institute for Defense Analyses 4850 Mark Center Drive / Alexandria, VA 22311-1882 Wk: (703) 845-6815 Fax: (703) 845-6809 -----Original Message----- From: Christopher Faylor [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, April 08, 2002 5:43 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: info: single install xfree86 + minimal cygwin? On Mon, Apr 08, 2002 at 04:02:06PM -0400, Green, Keith wrote: >However, we would prefer to give customers an environment they could >use for this. Some months ago I downloaded cygwin/xfree86 onto my >system (with some help) and installed it on my pc. It appears to >support everything we want to do. Unfortunately, the entire thing >seems pretty large. I note that we don't really need cygwin, per se, >except that xfree86 seems to require it as an API. > >Is a single install package for cygwin/xfree86 in which the cygwin has >been scaled-down (without the games, man pages, extraneous - for our >needs - libraries, plethora of great unix commands)? The base cygwin install provides, er, a base cygwin install. That's the default for the Cygwin installation. There is currently no XFree86 package in the cygwin installation at all. >I've been browsing the mail archives for this list. I don't entirely >understand everything I'm reading, but it sounds like there is >somewhere a single installation for cygwin and xfree86, although it >doesn't sound scaled back. Not that I'm aware of. It's been a goal but movement on it is pretty slow. I would love for someone to post a proposal for inclusion of a XFree86 package to the cygwin-apps mailing list using the guidelines at http://cygwin.com/setup.html but so far no one has been willing to do that. Once that happened, then you'd be able to just install XFree86 via the standard cygwin installation. cgf