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Date: Tue, 03 Feb 2004 01:09:35 +0000
From: Chris Jefferson <caj AT cs DOT york DOT ac DOT uk>
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Subject: Modular setup?
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Hello.

I suspect that this is a FAQ, but I haven't found it, so I'll ask it!

Unlike linux / *BSD / etc distributions, it doesn't seem easy to 
automate the cygwin install utility. I don't seem able to get a list of 
installed packages, give a package to install from a given file, examine 
the package cache , etc.

Now I think I can figure out how to get to these things, but I would 
personally perfer a nice command-line package utility which I could use 
to automate things (particularily an interest of mine, downloading 
binary patches to existing cached downloads to avoid having to redownload).

This would perhaps require seperating the existing setup into two 
pieces, a "bootstrap" section which just installed a minimal system 
involving this setup program, and then running the setup program itself, 
or perhaps some other method.

Is this kind of thing not covered in cygwin because it is felt it would 
needlessly complicate things, or simply because no-one has written the 
code? :)




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