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Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2001 11:40:22 -0400
From: Charles Wilson <cwilson AT ece DOT gatech DOT edu>
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To: Johannes Brodwall <johannes AT brodwall DOT com>
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Subject: Re: [feature-request] Installation Tool: Create profiles as meaningful 
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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.
> 

> 
> I could not find any message addressing this in the archives.

Search cygwin-developers. 

The "trunk" version of setup in the CVS cygwin source repository has a
lot of what you want.  It's not quite ready for prime-time though.  Stay
tuned.

--Chuck

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