Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Message-ID: <3C0D13FE.8050408@ece.gatech.edu> Date: Tue, 04 Dec 2001 13:20:46 -0500 From: Charles Wilson User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.4) Gecko/20010914 X-Accept-Language: en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: PM@nworks.dk CC: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Q: How do I install a full cygwin with setup.exe? (Did RTFM and STFW) References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-milter (http://amavis.org/) PM@nworks.dk wrote: > Hi, > > During the course of my installing I also quickly discovered, that I only > had a very rudimentary set of packages installed. > > The FAQ, under "What packages should I install" says: "Just get everything, > if you have room for it." If this is the recommendation, then why isn't it > easy to do? > Because setup is a work in progress. If you check the ml archives, you'll see that many people have already pointed this out, and folks are hard at work to provide this capability. --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/