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Re: Cygwin installer could be much more better
- From: Ilja Umov <ilja dot umov at gmail dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com, Andrey Repin <anrdaemon at yandex dot ru>
- Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2014 19:33:46 +0200
- Subject: Re: Cygwin installer could be much more better
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- References: <CAKYyfB08yy5QPk_w2JMPE909s0AK0H-Rmx=c5G4AUYdqLdCVtQ at mail dot gmail dot com> <2510386891 dot 20140129202434 at mtu-net dot ru>
On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 6:24 PM, Andrey Repin <anrdaemon@yandex.ru> wrote:
>> there is a certainly a good historical reason why cygwin installer
>> has so many options. But now one-click installers are so common
>> (Google Chrome is the best example), it may look rather scary,
>> especially for beginners.
>
> Google chrome is an ONE package.
> Cygwin setup installs about a ton of them.
> There's no confusion, there's options.
Chrome has `about:flags`. I sometimes like to toy around with them too.
But again, I usually don't.
Picture of `about:flags`, _(which redirects to `chrome://flags/`)_:
http://imgur.com/0zO69ZF
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