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From: "Robert Collins" <robert DOT collins AT itdomain DOT com DOT au>
To: <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>, "Randall R Schulz" <rrschulz AT cris DOT com>
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Subject: Re: Scripting Installs?
Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2002 01:21:13 +1100
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Randall R Schulz" <rrschulz AT cris DOT com>

> These concerns about the size of Cygwin are becoming ever less
sensible.
> It's 2002, and storage is extremely cheap, fast and capacious. It
hardly
> seems worth the bother to try to pare down a Cygwin install to save a
few
> dozen (or even a hundred) megabytes of disk space. Now that I've
installed
> the new Cygwin TeX packages (adding 95 megabytes or so), my full
Cygwin
> install occupies about 310 megabytes.

Heh, I'd have serious concerns about installing all the unneeded fluff -
links/lynx/wget/curl/squid/ftp/inetd/gcc on every machine in a corporate
environment. Size isn't the issue, complexity and risk management is.

Rob


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