Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Date: Sun, 4 May 2003 19:51:02 -0400 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: Setup very slow after choosing packages Message-ID: <20030504235102.GA17908@redhat.com> Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com References: <200305042328 DOT h44NSiT29825 AT mail DOT storm DOT ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i On Sun, May 04, 2003 at 07:33:57PM -0400, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: >On Sun, 4 May 2003, Yves Bellefeuille wrote: > >> Igor Pechtchanski wrote: >> >> > See and >> > . IOW, try a >> > snapshot (from ). >> >> Thanks, this is much better. The time necessary to process an installion >> of "all" on an empty system fell from 10 minutes to 2 seconds! >> >> I'm new to Cygwin, so I don't know who's in charge of these things, but >> this seems to me to be such a great improvement that I don't understand >> why the new version isn't the one normally used. I'm sure that many new >> users simply conclude, after waiting several minutes, that the Setup >> program isn't working and give up. >> >> Even looking at the FAQ doesn't help, since it warns that this process >> can take "a second or two", not ten minutes. Furthermore, the FAQ warns >> that "snapshots are risky", which doesn't encourage new users to try >> the latest version of Setup. > >There is no need to Cc: me, I'm on the list. I've specifically set the >Reply-To: header to point to the list, please make sure your mailer honors >that. Thanks. Why do so many people miss the perfect opportunity to use the cygwin slogan? Q: Why isn't something working the way I think it should be? A: Because we're mean. (TM) cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/