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: <009401c29c6d$06df21d0$78d96f83@pomello> From: "Max Bowsher" To: "Richard Campbell" , References: Subject: Re: [Mingw-users] Cygwin Full download in one big archive ? Date: Thu, 5 Dec 2002 14:45:59 -0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106 Richard Campbell wrote: >> 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. This doesn't require one big archive. There is nothing stopping anyone with a slow but flat rate connection from running setup, choosing everything, and letting it get on with it. >> 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. I have everything downloaded and kept up to date (but not installed). But at no point would one big archive have been useful to me. Max. -- 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/