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Re: [feature-request] Installation Tool: Create profiles as meaningful collection of packages
- To: Johannes Brodwall <johannes at brodwall dot com>
- Subject: Re: [feature-request] Installation Tool: Create profiles as meaningful collection of packages
- From: Charles Wilson <cwilson at ece dot gatech dot edu>
- Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2001 11:40:22 -0400
- CC: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- References: <008701c15e00$283be770$630dd9c1@BUTTERFLIES>
Johannes Brodwall wrote:
>
> Hi,
> I have found that personally, the setup.exe installation is not very
> convenient. With 80+ packages, ranging from critical (ash), to useful
> (fileutils) to unusable without external help (postgresql - requires
> cygipc), I always end up installing all the packages available for
> simplicity. I currently have a very high-speed internet connection and a
> large hard drive, but this is not always the case.
>
>
> I could not find any message addressing this in the archives.
Search cygwin-developers.
The "trunk" version of setup in the CVS cygwin source repository has a
lot of what you want. It's not quite ready for prime-time though. Stay
tuned.
--Chuck
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