Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sources.redhat.com Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2001 11:20:47 +0100 Message-ID: <656-Tue12Jun2001112047+0100-starksb@ebi.ac.uk> X-Mailer: emacs 20.7.1 (via feedmail 9-beta-7 I); VM 6.92 under Emacs 20.7.1 From: David Starks-Browning MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Package Information needed In-Reply-To: <3.0.3.32.20010611183007.00931e80@pop.tagesspiegel.de> References: <3.0.3.32.20010611183007.00931e80@pop.tagesspiegel.de> On Monday 11 Jun 01, Oliver Thieke writes: > > Hi out there ! > > Although this might be a very newbie question I am > kind of stuck... > > Where can I get information about the contents and > usage of the various packages shipped within cygwin ? > > I browsed the FAQ, the User Guide, RedHat Web-Site, > local Cygwin-Dir for Info - nothing. > > I am quite familiar with unix - hence bash, csv, make, > gcc, gdb, diff, grep, tar and so on are known. > But I can't figured out why and what for I would need > packages like cygrunsrv, binutils, fileutils, > openssl... I had considered adding one-line descriptions of the packages to the FAQ, because I think it would be useful to have this information available somewhere. Before downloading & installating the package, that is. But I'm concerned that it would take too much space, and the FAQ is already HUGE. I'm open to suggestions. I'm happy to add it if it would help. Cheers, David (Cygwin FAQ maintainer) -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Check out: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple