Mail Archives: cygwin/2004/07/26/11:38:03
On Mon, Jul 26, 2004 at 09:29:58AM +0300, Jani tiainen wrote:
>Christopher Faylor wrote:
>>On Sun, Jul 25, 2004 at 06:04:18PM +0300, Jani tiainen wrote:
>>
>>>Recently I wanted to install Cygnome2 packages, and noticed that you
>>>can't install them simultaenously with rest of Cygwin - problem is that
>>>you can't really tell from packages which comes from which server - in
>>>my case there was GTK2 packages from Cygwin distribution that were
>>>installed instead wanted Cygnome2 packages - and nothing really worked.
>>
>>This is the Cygwin project. There is only one source for packages. If
>>other projects are using setup.exe and providing their own packages,
>>that's great but please don't ask us to try to support other people's
>>efforts.
>
>Yes I know.
...
>Another issue is that why setup wants always to upgrade latest version?
setup.exe has a TODO and a wish list. I suggest that you check it out:
http://sources.redhat.com/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/setup/README?rev=2&cvsroot=cygwin-apps
>>Maybe either you or the Cygnome2 project should provide patches to
>>setup to implement your ideas. This really isn't an issue for us but
>>we'll gladly consider changes to setup.exe.
>
>I'll see what I can do about it, but not this time since I know how to
>deal with it and it's not such a big issue.
Hmm.
cgf
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