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 Date: Thu, 14 Oct 2004 10:26:16 -0400 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Virtual (meta-) packages Message-ID: <20041014142616.GA22814@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i On Thu, Oct 14, 2004 at 09:08:04AM +0300, Jani Tiainen wrote: >Could setup be extended (or even used in current form) to have virtual >packages that could install some basic tools as a whole working >combination, like X11 server? More or less like it is done in Debian (my >favourite Linux distribution) > >I recently wondered where my X11 start scripts went and found out that >I've missing startup-scripts. It would be more convenient to have >virtual package that installs "all" for that first time so you don't >have to know what you're installing... It would be helpful. If you want all of the X packages then click on the "Default" next to the X11 category in "Select Packages" dialog until it says "Install". -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/