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Re: where is setup.exe source?
- From: Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes <sthoenna at efn dot org>
- To: cygwin-talk at cygwin dot com
- Date: Sun, 6 Nov 2005 21:43:24 -0800
- Subject: Re: where is setup.exe source?
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On Sun, Nov 06, 2005 at 02:52:10PM -0800, Brian Dessent wrote:
> Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
>
> > Well, yes, if you put it that way. However, there's a chicken-and-egg
> > problem here, right? As in "I want to download Cygwin fast" needs Cygwin
> > to figure it out[*]?
>
> Well, it's not hard to bootstrap yourself. The base cygwin install is
> currently 13.5MB to download, plus another 7.3MB if you want perl.
Hmm, should I ITP a perl1 package?