Mail Archives: cygwin/2005/05/19/10:03:30
On Tue, 17 May 2005 14:31:45 -0700, Brandon J. Van Every wrote:
> I have a reasonably healthy Cygwin installation that I typically use to
> build various HLL compilers. One of these compilers needed the "zip"
> tool in order to be built. So I fired up Cygwin and clicked to install
> "zip." Well, instead of doing just that, it also started installing
> Ruby, and TeTex, and seemingly a whole bunch of other things. I know
> for fact that the simple "zip" tool is not dependent upon this stuff, so
> I am wondering why Cygwin is installing it all.
>
> It is irritating because I'm on a dialup, and I just wanted to grab the
> small "zip" tool and keep going with my real work. Instead I'm waiting
> waiting waiting waiting on piles of downloads that I'm too lazy to go in
> and figure out.
>
> Guesses and conjectures:
>
> - is Cygwin pushing new versions of stuff I previously downloaded?
No. Only if it is installed.
> - is Cygwin just fulfilling a broken download I started earlier?
No.
You always get the dependencies and updates (until you manually
deselect them).
Thorsten
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