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Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2001 15:20:53 -0500
To: "Ship, Howard" <Howard DOT Ship AT corp DOT webct DOT com>, <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
From: "Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" <lhall AT rfk DOT com>
Subject: Re: Feature Request: Cygwin Installer
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At 03:08 PM 10/31/2001, Ship, Howard wrote:
>#1
>
>I only want to install a subset of the packages available.  Basically, I
>need a few CVS and SSH related tools.
>
>When I re-run the installer, I would prefer if it remembered which
>packages I had previously installed, and (by default) only select
>updates to those packages.
>
>Currently, I have to work my way down the list and deselect the many,
>many packages I'm not interested in.  This is tedious and error prone.
>
>#2
>
>Packages often rely on other packages.  The installer should be able to
>identify this and (after warning me) automatically include additional
>packages in the install.



Thanks for sharing.  If you want to look at the email archives, you'll
find these basic issues of setup discussed ad-nauseam.  Feel free to 
jump into the effort to build and test these features.  I don't think 
anyone will really argue that these kinds of features are needed for
setup, which is why work on setup has been going in that direction...



Larry Hall                              lhall AT rfk DOT com
RFK Partners, Inc.                      http://www.rfk.com
118 Washington Street                   (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office
Holliston, MA 01746                     (508) 893-9889 - FAX


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