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Re: Feature Request: Cygwin Installer


At 03:08 PM 10/31/2001, Ship, Howard wrote:
>#1
>
>I only want to install a subset of the packages available.  Basically, I
>need a few CVS and SSH related tools.
>
>When I re-run the installer, I would prefer if it remembered which
>packages I had previously installed, and (by default) only select
>updates to those packages.
>
>Currently, I have to work my way down the list and deselect the many,
>many packages I'm not interested in.  This is tedious and error prone.
>
>#2
>
>Packages often rely on other packages.  The installer should be able to
>identify this and (after warning me) automatically include additional
>packages in the install.



Thanks for sharing.  If you want to look at the email archives, you'll
find these basic issues of setup discussed ad-nauseam.  Feel free to 
jump into the effort to build and test these features.  I don't think 
anyone will really argue that these kinds of features are needed for
setup, which is why work on setup has been going in that direction...



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