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 Message-ID: <428B2B4C.4040207@familiehaase.de> Date: Wed, 18 May 2005 13:47:24 +0200 From: "Gerrit P. Haase" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.7) Gecko/20050414 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Brandon J. Van Every" CC: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: Cygwin installing too much stuff References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Brandon J. Van Every wrote: > 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. Yes. There is a radio button in setup.exe called 'Keep', toggle it and then switch to the 'Full' view using the 'View' button to get the complete package listing, now select zip. > - 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. HTH, Gerrit -- =^..^= -- 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/