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 To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com From: "Brandon J. Van Every" Subject: Cygwin installing too much stuff Date: Tue, 17 May 2005 14:31:45 -0700 Lines: 32 Message-ID: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2 (Windows/20050317) X-IsSubscribed: yes I have a reasonably healthy Cygwin installation that I typically use to build various HLL compilers. One of these compilers needed the "zip" tool in order to be built. So I fired up Cygwin and clicked to install "zip." Well, instead of doing just that, it also started installing Ruby, and TeTex, and seemingly a whole bunch of other things. I know for fact that the simple "zip" tool is not dependent upon this stuff, so I am wondering why Cygwin is installing it all. It is irritating because I'm on a dialup, and I just wanted to grab the small "zip" tool and keep going with my real work. Instead I'm waiting waiting waiting waiting on piles of downloads that I'm too lazy to go in and figure out. Guesses and conjectures: - is Cygwin pushing new versions of stuff I previously downloaded? That would be BAD. That would mean that every time I use a dialup, I'm likely to get more new stuff that takes a long time to download that I don't really want. - is Cygwin just fulfilling a broken download I started earlier? I did try to grab TeTex the other week, and I thought it finished, but I never did use it or test it. In this case, I'd really like to prioritize my downloads. When I download "zip," for me that means "I want zip NOW." I don't want it in alphabetical order. Cheers, www.indiegamedesign.com Brandon Van Every Seattle, WA "The pioneer is the one with the arrows in his back." - anonymous entrepreneur -- 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/