Re: Where to find a reliable provider of CygwinX?

[Christopher Faylor <cgf-use-the-mailinglist-please at cygwin dot com>]

On Tue, Feb 01, 2011 at 07:13:51PM +0100, J??rgen Steensgaard wrote:
>Thanks for the guidance.  But: yes, I refer to a provider on the list of 
>mirrors found in setup.exe; and yes, I realise the difficulty to ensure 
>consistency and the urge to put responsibilities on mirror owners.  Some 
>mechanism of mirror authorisation is in my opinion needed.

As previously mentioned, we already have that.

>Is the original distribution available to common users?  Or at least 
>details of the contents? If not, I have no reference system and cannot 
>identify derivations?
>
>Do remember that the impressions left by inconsistencies will stick also 
>on the original -- which is actually fair.

How about if we treat your problem as a support experience rather than a
call to redesign all of the mirror handling?

You have not provided such basic details as:

What, exactly, did you select when installing that would lead you to
believe that you should have had X programs installed?  What mirror did
you use?  What error message did you receive when you tried to install
xinit but found it unavailable?

I have a very hard time believing that you found official cygwin mirrors
which did not have the libjpeg62 package but, if you did, we'd certainly
like to know which ones are in error.

cgf

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