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 X-Authentication-Warning: slinky.cs.nyu.edu: pechtcha owned process doing -bs Date: Sun, 4 May 2003 22:44:31 -0400 (EDT) From: Igor Pechtchanski Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: Setup very slow after choosing packages In-Reply-To: <20030504235102.GA17908@redhat.com> Message-ID: Importance: Normal MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII On Sun, 4 May 2003, Christopher Faylor wrote: > 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 I think we really need that mean otter pic to remind us... Anyone working on that? Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ pechtcha AT cs DOT nyu DOT edu ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ igor AT watson DOT ibm DOT com |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! Knowledge is an unending adventure at the edge of uncertainty. -- Leto II -- 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/