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On 11/9/2011 11:43 PM, Ryan Johnson wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> There's a somewhat annoying behavior in setup.exe when installing
> packages in 'keep' mode: all dependencies selected by things which would
> have been installed in 'Curr' mode still try to download. Often I can
> tell that they're spurious and just choose not to install them, but it
> would get messy if the thing to be installed actually had dependencies...

[sorry]

There is a small setup.exe patch
http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-apps/2011-05/msg00094.html

szgyg

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