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: <3C7FA2A1.1090208@ece.gatech.edu> Date: Fri, 01 Mar 2002 10:47:45 -0500 From: Charles Wilson User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:0.9.4) Gecko/20011019 Netscape6/6.2 X-Accept-Language: en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Randall R Schulz CC: Markus Hoenicka , cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: "local install"? References: <20020301101318.16349.qmail@oak.oeko.net> <20020301101318.16349.qmail@oak.oeko.net> <5.1.0.14.2.20020301073006.024b18c8@pop3.cris.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Randall R Schulz wrote: > I don't understand this. You get maximum flexibility by separate > "Download from Internet" and "Install from Local Directory" operations. > That way you can download sources and have them at hand without > unconditionally installing them. > > By copying my local installation cache to a CD, I can save others very > large downloads. > > I cannot see this as a loss of functionality. > > Can you tell me some functionality only available when one uses "Install > from Internet?" Sure: merging multiple "mirrors" into a seamless single-view installation. (Or, merging an official mirror site + "Bob's archive of cool cygwin packages" + "My company's local cygwin ports" into a single, always-up-to-date single seamless installation). Sure, you could manually download the packages you are interested in from all 27 sites, merge them into a single local repo, and then do 'install-from-local' -- but setup's "extra functionality" automatically handles that stuff for you -- just point-n-click. --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/