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 13:23:33 -0400 (EDT) From: Igor Pechtchanski Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com To: Jani Tiainen cc: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Virtual (meta-) packages In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: <20041014142616.GA22814@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.39 On Thu, 14 Oct 2004, Jani Tiainen wrote: > Christopher Faylor wrote: > > 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. I believe I've suggested this before -- search the list archives for "installation profiles" or smth. > > 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". > > Not all, but working set. With Debian there is lot's of virtual packages that > works for great startpoint for different jobs. They in most cases install set > that will work or help to make bigger task to work. Like X11, basic > C-developement tools, gnome, kde etc. environment.... > > Basically this works now, only thing is to ensure that setup.exe can accept > packages that don't install themselves but instead they just pickup other > packages for installation. > > Would be more convenient for me, and I quess that for someone else too... Well, you can always use dummy (empty) packages with the appropriate "requires:" lines in setup.hints. Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ igor@watson.ibm.com |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! "Happiness lies in being privileged to work hard for long hours in doing whatever you think is worth doing." -- Dr. Jubal Harshaw -- 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/