X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,SPF_HELO_PASS X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <4CB30C0D.8020900@towo.net> Date: Mon, 11 Oct 2010 15:07:25 +0200 From: Thomas Wolff User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; de; rv:1.9.2.9) Gecko/20100915 Thunderbird/3.1.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: How to know if the x11 display uses 24-bit RGB color or instead uses a color palette with a fixed number of colors References: <20101008022744 DOT 76266 DOT qmail AT web3309 DOT mail DOT ogk DOT yahoo DOT co DOT jp> <4CAEEDFE DOT 9090907 AT towo DOT net> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Id: 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 Am 11.10.2010 09:41, schrieb Csaba Raduly: > On Fri, Oct 8, 2010 at 12:10 PM, Thomas Wolff wrote: >> Am 08.10.2010 04:50, schrieb Mark Geisert: >>> For a while now the X components have been unbundled and can be installed >>> separately, mostly. >> I wonder why they were unbundled. It has been suggested here before that it >> would be useful to bundle the typical tiny X tools with the default X >> installation, just to avoid such trouble. > Because not everybody has the same needs. Before the unbundling, I had > to install the entirety of X just to be able to run makedepend; > several megabytes of unused stuff just for a single, 23k executable. I understand. But here we speak of the opposite situation. A number of tools (10, 20?) most of which are only a few K. By installing ~1MB total many users looking for standard tools would not have to search or ask. Thomas -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple