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Okay Larry,

I understand.
there used to be a page that I cant seem to find that had a list of 
extra suggestions when installing perl, cpan, and expect module.

I cant seem to find that page.

I have a pretty good memory what was on it though.

Cheer,s

Noah


Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote:
> Noah wrote:
>> Hi there,
>>
>> is there a list of recommended apps to install upon initially 
>> installing cygwin?
> 
> 'setup.exe' will install a default set of apps that's considered a "good
> base".  You don't need to select any additional apps beyond that to have
> a working Cygwin environment.  But there is no "recommended" set of apps
> beyond that.  It depends on your needs.  For instance, developers may
> want one or more selections from the "Devel" category, X enthusiasts may
> want some selections from the "X11" category, etc.
> 
> 

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