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Re: Feature Request: Cygwin Installer
- To: "Ship, Howard" <Howard dot Ship at corp dot webct dot com>, <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Subject: Re: Feature Request: Cygwin Installer
- From: "Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" <lhall at rfk dot com>
- Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2001 15:20:53 -0500
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...
Larry Hall lhall@rfk.com
RFK Partners, Inc. http://www.rfk.com
118 Washington Street (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office
Holliston, MA 01746 (508) 893-9889 - FAX
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