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From: Mark Sheppard <msheppard AT climax DOT co DOT uk>
To: "'Markus Hoenicka'" <Markus DOT Hoenicka AT uth DOT tmc DOT edu>,
   Randall R Schulz
	 <rrschulz AT cris DOT com>, cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: RE: "local install"?
Date: Fri, 1 Mar 2002 15:47:56 -0000 
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Surely if you were bothering to make a CD you'd want to include
everything anyway, thus you wouldn't need dependency checking.

Mark.


-----Original Message-----
From: Markus Hoenicka [mailto:Markus DOT Hoenicka AT uth DOT tmc DOT edu]
Sent: 01 March 2002 15:51
To: Randall R Schulz; cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: "local install"?


Randall,

the original poster's suggestion was not to use setup.exe to download
the packages, but rather a linux box. This way you lose the dependency
tracking in setup.exe (it does not run on Linux afaik), and to
make sure you don't miss a dependency and thus waste a CD you'd have
to download *all* available packages which is a waste of time.

I'm afraid you misunderstood my comments on this issue. I fully agree
that using setup.exe to first download and later install the packages
is the most versatile way of doing things. I just pointed out that
manually downloading the packages, thus bypassing setup.exe in the
first place, will have issues.

regards,
Markus

Randall R Schulz writes:
 > >You lose a lot of the functionality of setup.exe if you do it this way
but 
 > >you can certainly do this if you want to have a hard time.
 > 
 > 
 > I don't understand this. You get maximum flexibility by separate
"Download 
 > from Internet" and "Install from Local Directory" operations. That way
you 
 > can download sources and have them at hand without unconditionally 
 > installing them.
 > 
 > By copying my local installation cache to a CD, I can save others very 
 > large downloads.
 > 
 > I cannot see this as a loss of functionality.
 > 
 > Can you tell me some functionality only available when one uses "Install 
 > from Internet?"
 > 
 > Randall Schulz
 > Mountain View, CA USA

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