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 Message-ID: <3BD983E6.6F381F2A@ece.gatech.edu> Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2001 11:40:22 -0400 From: Charles Wilson X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; I; SunOS 5.8 sun4u) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Johannes Brodwall CC: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: [feature-request] Installation Tool: Create profiles as meaningful collection of packages References: <008701c15e00$283be770$630dd9c1@BUTTERFLIES> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-milter (http://amavis.org/) Johannes Brodwall wrote: > > Hi, > I have found that personally, the setup.exe installation is not very > convenient. With 80+ packages, ranging from critical (ash), to useful > (fileutils) to unusable without external help (postgresql - requires > cygipc), I always end up installing all the packages available for > simplicity. I currently have a very high-speed internet connection and a > large hard drive, but this is not always the case. > > > I could not find any message addressing this in the archives. Search cygwin-developers. The "trunk" version of setup in the CVS cygwin source repository has a lot of what you want. It's not quite ready for prime-time though. Stay tuned. --Chuck -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/