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Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2001 11:30:25 -0400
From: Christopher Faylor <cgf AT redhat DOT com>
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: [feature-request] Installation Tool: Create profiles as meaningful collection of packages
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On Fri, Oct 26, 2001 at 11:25:30AM +0200, Johannes Brodwall wrote:
>Hi,
>I have found that personally, the setup.exe installation is not very
>convenient.  With 80+ packages, ranging from critical (ash), to useful
>(fileutils) to unusable without external help (postgresql - requires
>cygipc), I always end up installing all the packages available for
>simplicity.  I currently have a very high-speed internet connection and a
>large hard drive, but this is not always the case.
>
>What would be very useful would be to have a set of profiles to select from.
>Some examples of profiles could be "minimal installation", "development
>platform", and "full".  In addition to answering the question "will cygwin
>not work if I don't install this", it will make it more practical to select
>a partial installation, something that currently requires a lot of clicking
>around.  Is anything like this planned?
>
>The motivation for me asking this question might be somewhat interesting.
>My dad, a lawyer, wants to understand better the inner workings of
>computers.  I decided that teaching him C would be a good place to start.
>However, both his computer and connection are very low-end, so downloading
>all of cygwin is not an optimal way of getting gcc.  I really want to
>introduce the concept of open-source to him as much as possible as well,
>because I believe it is important that people working with law understand
>the issues involved better.
>
>I could not find any message addressing this in the archives.

Then you really weren't looking very hard at all since this has been discussed
repeatedly.

cgf

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