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Date:	Thu, 16 Jun 2005 02:11:50 -0700
From:	Brian Dessent <brian AT dessent DOT net>
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Andreas Eibach wrote:

> Indeed, I was playing around with library packages (clicking them off even though I knew package 'xyz' will need the lib, and got no warnings at all).

If you deselect the packages that setup selects you can very easily
break your installation, as you have seen.  If you aren't positively
sure what a package does and that you know you don't need it, you
shouldn't mess with it.

> Please point me to the test build of setup.exe if possible. And maybe even upgrade the setup.exe from cygwin.com site, so that people that do a virgin cygwin install will not have to use an old version of setup.

http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-apps/2005-05/msg00250.html

Brian

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