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RE: about cygwin setup
- From: Khoa Do <kdo at stratacare dot com>
- To: "'cygwin at cygwin dot com'" <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Cc: "'Ralf dot Habacker at freenet dot de'" <Ralf dot Habacker at freenet dot de>, "'robert dot collins at itdomain dot com dot au'" <robert dot collins at itdomain dot com dot au>
- Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2001 19:01:12 -0800
- Subject: RE: about cygwin setup
>Use the prev/curr/exp radio buttons at the top of the setup.exe screen to
toggle all currently installed
>packages between prev/curr/exp versions. As for getting the source for
everything, I've added that to the
>wishlist. Finally, installing "everything" does not make sense - see the
list archives for the last couple of >days.
>Rob
Thanks for the suggestions and I did finally check the archives. I
think I agree with Ralf Habacker that there should be preset configurations
that we can just click to install on a "new" machine. I would wish for some
preset configurations like:
SELECT ONE OR MORE CONFIGURATIONS AND ONLY ONE SNAPSHOT:
--------------------------------------------------------
user
previous
current
experimental
developer
previous
current
experimental
administrator
previous
current
experimental
Just a suggestion that I think would make a user's life a little
easier. What do you think?
> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> Von: cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com
> [mailto:cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com]Im Auftrag von Robert Collins
> Gesendet am: Donnerstag, 15. November 2001 13:15
> An: Ralf Habacker; Cygwin
> Betreff: Re: setup.exe suggestions
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Ralf Habacker" <Ralf.Habacker@freenet.de>
>
> > > > 2) A way to quickly select/deselect all packages; I went to make a
> > > bare Cygwin installation, and deselecting almost every package was
> > > v.tiresome!
> > >
> ...> >
> > Perhaps it might be good to have a possibility to select predefined
> > configurations like suse linux yast allow.
> > For example
> > basic
> > web environment
> > delevopment
> > xfree
>
> It exists already. It's just that no groupings have been created. To
> create one, simply make a package with no files, ie an empty tarball,
> and dependencies.
>
Great. Thats means there could be a new category named "configurations" or
so
containing all the dummy tarballs with related dependencies.
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