X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.7 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RP_MATCHES_RCVD X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <4E2BE9ED.6080008@tlinx.org> Date: Sun, 24 Jul 2011 02:46:21 -0700 From: Linda Walsh Reply-To: Linda Walsh User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.8.1.24) Gecko/20100228 Thunderbird/2.0.0.24 Mnenhy/0.7.6.666 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Important setup.exe bug : -P switch is inefficient ? References: <670b29a7dd63088d4e1e92ef81648441.squirrel@ssl.ombos.raceme.org> <4E2BE600.7010605@tlinx.org> In-Reply-To: <4E2BE600.7010605@tlinx.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 Linda Walsh wrote: >> >> Please correct me if I have made mistakes or misunderstood setup.exe options. >> >> Please keep me in Cc: of any answer, as I am no member of the mailing list. >> >> >> Vincent Deffontaines >> > > You aren't wrong. > > It's broken. --- Didn't mean to be quite that short. In cyg-dev's defense, I can well understand what it is to try to deal with making anything and keeping anything working on windows - especially with the !(!%&)%!@) MS has put in Vista & worse in Win7... all looks nice, till you try to get anything to play nice together... (beating head against wall) -linda -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple