From: tromey AT cygnus DOT com (Tom Tromey) Subject: Re: cygwin32-developers problems? 10 Mar 1998 12:53:55 -0800 Message-ID: References: <199803100128 DOT UAA08056 AT hardy DOT bbc DOT com> Reply-To: tromey AT cygnus DOT com To: cgf AT bbc DOT com Cc: cygwin32-developers AT cygnus DOT com Christopher> You could modify the installation procedure so that there Christopher> were three (or more?) packages. A "base" package, a Christopher> "developers" package, a "users" package. This is nearly Christopher> what is done now, but you could also allow click and Christopher> choose installation of specific packages. Why stop there? Why not just use packages, like Debian or Red Hat? In fact, isn't there already some initiative to do something like this (host Debian on top of Cygwin)? Tom