Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sources.redhat.com Message-ID: From: Khoa Do To: "'cygwin@cygwin.com'" Cc: "'Ralf.Habacker@freenet.de'" , "'robert.collins@itdomain.com.au'" Subject: RE: about cygwin setup Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2001 19:01:12 -0800 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by delorie.com id fAG3AKQ08295 >Use the prev/curr/exp radio buttons at the top of the setup.exe screen to toggle all currently installed >packages between prev/curr/exp versions. As for getting the source for everything, I've added that to the >wishlist. Finally, installing "everything" does not make sense - see the list archives for the last couple of >days. >Rob Thanks for the suggestions and I did finally check the archives. I think I agree with Ralf Habacker that there should be preset configurations that we can just click to install on a "new" machine. I would wish for some preset configurations like: SELECT ONE OR MORE CONFIGURATIONS AND ONLY ONE SNAPSHOT: -------------------------------------------------------- user previous current experimental developer previous current experimental administrator previous current experimental Just a suggestion that I think would make a user's life a little easier. What do you think? > -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- > Von: cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com > [mailto:cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com]Im Auftrag von Robert Collins > Gesendet am: Donnerstag, 15. November 2001 13:15 > An: Ralf Habacker; Cygwin > Betreff: Re: setup.exe suggestions > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Ralf Habacker" > > > > > 2) A way to quickly select/deselect all packages; I went to make a > > > bare Cygwin installation, and deselecting almost every package was > > > v.tiresome! > > > > ...> > > > Perhaps it might be good to have a possibility to select predefined > > configurations like suse linux yast allow. > > For example > > basic > > web environment > > delevopment > > xfree > > It exists already. It's just that no groupings have been created. To > create one, simply make a package with no files, ie an empty tarball, > and dependencies. > Great. Thats means there could be a new category named "configurations" or so containing all the dummy tarballs with related dependencies. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/