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Date: Wed, 18 May 2005 13:47:24 +0200
From: "Gerrit P. Haase" <gerrit AT familiehaase DOT de>
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To: "Brandon J. Van Every" <vanevery AT indiegamedesign DOT com>
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Subject: Re: Cygwin installing too much stuff
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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
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