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Eric Hanchrow wrote:
> I installed the FreeNX Windows client (http://freenx.berlios.de/),
> hoping to access my server machine remotely.  I didn't know it at the
> time, but the Windows client includes a Cygwin DLL -- and it clobbered
> by existing Cygwin installation, somehow (I forget the details -- I
> think it modified important registry settings).
> 
> Clearly FreeNX's documentation is lacking, in that it didn't warn me
> about this.
> 
> But I was wondering -- how _is_ a vendor such as FreeNX supposed to
> distribute software that depends on Cygwin?  How can they avoid having
> their own, separate, Cygwin installation on the user's machine?
> 

This has also been discussed before.  If you'd like to understand the options,
I'd recommend reviewing the email archives for threads on this issue.

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