Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Date: Tue, 2 Jul 2002 19:40:11 +0100 Message-ID: <8151-Tue02Jul2002194012+0100-starksb@ebi.ac.uk> From: David Starks-Browning MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Chris Game Cc: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Setup query Newsgroups: gmane.os.cygwin In-Reply-To: References: <20020630122544.44223.qmail@web21008.mail.yahoo.com> <5930-Mon01Jul2002112151+0100-starksb@ebi.ac.uk> On Tuesday 2 Jul 02, Chris Game writes: > In an earlier post, David Starks-Browning said... > > > > Do you have an idea what this choice actually does in terms of files > > > downloaded and changes made to the installation? > > > > The setup part of the FAQ is overdue to be updated and I'll add > > something about this then. > > Thanks for the response, David, though judging by the silence from > the experts on this it might be hard to discover what this control > actually does. Does no-one really know? I find that hard to believe. > > And more practically, the proper place for the explanation is not in > the FAQ but on a pop-up box accessible from the setup screen. Keep > the information near where it's needed. Cygwin may be fun to play > with, but only if you like puzzles and have the time to unravel them. > For real-world users it's like running a set of tools held together > with baler twine - and each time one of them updates you have to undo > and remake the baler twine connections all over again! Then don't use it. Or provide patches. David -- 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/