RE: Cut down xfree server for XDMCP only

[Tim Thomson <tim dot thomson at paradise dot net dot nz>]

On Sat, 2002-06-15 at 22:27, Robert Collins wrote:

> Sure. And a minimum cygwin install is all you'd get. Setup only installs
> the bare minimum - the 'base' category by default. No compilers, no
> 'optional' components at all. And even they can be deselected (but not
> be default).

Hmmm, I first installed cygwin-xfree before it was incorporated into the
setup.exe system, but have now used the setup.exe to install on another
system as well. I found that it was very hard to reduce the size of the
install, as many things depend on many others.

I was hoping I wouldn't need to recompile everything for every new
version, as downloading sources, then getting everything to go for each
new update would be a lot harder than finding recent versions of
cygwin1.dll and XWin.exe, adding them to the distribution and providing
a new "version" of the download. 

Perhaps we could check if cygwin is already installed, and refuse to
install if it is. We could also have warnings saying not to install both
at the same time. This would mean we could use the standard binary and
libraries, just repackaged.

I wonder which would prove to be the biggest hassle. It may prove more
productive to recompile everything, if only to separate the two, so
people wouldn't get confused.

Thanks for your input,

Tim.