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: Mon, 26 Jul 2004 11:37:27 -0400 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: Selecting packages in setup Message-ID: <20040726153727.GA1283@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com References: <4103CBF2 DOT 9030707 AT luukku DOT com> <20040725231724 DOT GC24361 AT trixie DOT casa DOT cgf DOT cx> <4104A4E6 DOT 308 AT luukku DOT com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4104A4E6.308@luukku.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i On Mon, Jul 26, 2004 at 09:29:58AM +0300, Jani tiainen wrote: >Christopher Faylor wrote: >>On Sun, Jul 25, 2004 at 06:04:18PM +0300, Jani tiainen wrote: >> >>>Recently I wanted to install Cygnome2 packages, and noticed that you >>>can't install them simultaenously with rest of Cygwin - problem is that >>>you can't really tell from packages which comes from which server - in >>>my case there was GTK2 packages from Cygwin distribution that were >>>installed instead wanted Cygnome2 packages - and nothing really worked. >> >>This is the Cygwin project. There is only one source for packages. If >>other projects are using setup.exe and providing their own packages, >>that's great but please don't ask us to try to support other people's >>efforts. > >Yes I know. ... >Another issue is that why setup wants always to upgrade latest version? setup.exe has a TODO and a wish list. I suggest that you check it out: http://sources.redhat.com/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/setup/README?rev=2&cvsroot=cygwin-apps >>Maybe either you or the Cygnome2 project should provide patches to >>setup to implement your ideas. This really isn't an issue for us but >>we'll gladly consider changes to setup.exe. > >I'll see what I can do about it, but not this time since I know how to >deal with it and it's not such a big issue. Hmm. 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/