X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <488E4884.4020304@bmts.com> Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2008 18:30:28 -0400 From: Ralph Hempel User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.6 (X11/20071022) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com, cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Download Cygwin once and intall it several times References: <488DF749.D61CBD8C@dessent.net> <032d01c8f0d3$3daf6650$9601a8c0@CAM.ARTIMI.COM> <20080728211557.GA7646@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> <488E3FF7.8000907@bmts.com> <20080728214842.GB7646@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> In-Reply-To: <20080728214842.GB7646@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-brucetelecom.com-MailScanner-Information: Please contact Bruce Telecom 519.368.2000 for more information X-brucetelecom.com-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-brucetelecom.com-MailScanner-From: rhempel@bmts.com X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Id: 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 Christopher Faylor wrote: > Using setup.exe for this task makes me think that people believe > setup.exe is doing something mysterious. It really isn't. Even if you > wanted to go to the effort of unpacking tar.bz2 files you could still do > it all with bash, tar, and mount, avoiding setup.exe entirely. Except that setup.exe is "bootstrapping" the install all by itself and managing package dependencies. Ralph -- 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/