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: <4.3.1.2.20011031151652.02924658@pop.ma.ultranet.com> X-Sender: lhall@pop.ma.ultranet.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 4.3.1 Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2001 15:20:53 -0500 To: "Ship, Howard" , From: "Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" Subject: Re: Feature Request: Cygwin Installer In-Reply-To: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" At 03:08 PM 10/31/2001, Ship, Howard wrote: >#1 > >I only want to install a subset of the packages available. Basically, I >need a few CVS and SSH related tools. > >When I re-run the installer, I would prefer if it remembered which >packages I had previously installed, and (by default) only select >updates to those packages. > >Currently, I have to work my way down the list and deselect the many, >many packages I'm not interested in. This is tedious and error prone. > >#2 > >Packages often rely on other packages. The installer should be able to >identify this and (after warning me) automatically include additional >packages in the install. Thanks for sharing. If you want to look at the email archives, you'll find these basic issues of setup discussed ad-nauseam. Feel free to jump into the effort to build and test these features. I don't think anyone will really argue that these kinds of features are needed for setup, which is why work on setup has been going in that direction... Larry Hall lhall@rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. http://www.rfk.com 118 Washington Street (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office Holliston, MA 01746 (508) 893-9889 - FAX -- 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/