Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Message-ID: From: Richard Campbell To: "'cygwin@cygwin.com'" Subject: RE: [Mingw-users] Cygwin Full download in one big archive ? Date: Thu, 5 Dec 2002 09:39:50 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" >Impractical. As I said, almost 100% of people won't want 100% of packages. It might be interesting to poll in some way, considering how often this comes up. I suspect more than "almost 0%" might want a 1-button, overnight-style install. >Frankly, this odd method only makes the slightest sense in your unusual >situation (downloads constricted by number of files not file size). I have every package selected, and as new packages appear I install them. >tetex ? (Document processing system) >lilypond ? (Sheet music production) > >Both multi-megabyte packages for very specialized requirements. Got them both. Haven't used either yet, but if I want to they are installed and up to date. -Richard Campbell. -- 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/