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From: Christopher Faylor <cgf-no-personal-reply-please@cygwin.com>
To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: Reducing configuration headaches for cygwin-xfree
Date: Thu, 04 Mar 2004 16:04:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040304160408.GC21030@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0403041604260.11345@odoaker.hrz.tu-chemnitz.de>

On Thu, Mar 04, 2004 at 04:07:00PM +0100, Alexander Gottwald wrote:
>On Thu, 4 Mar 2004, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>>AFAIK, you wouldn't want to install X without also installing some
>>other things like bash, at least.  I would think you'd want other tools
>>like 'cp', as well.  Since people always complain that the minimal
>>installation for cygwin (which is the default) doesn't have enough
>>stuff in it, I don't really understand why the minimal installation + X
>>would have too much.
>
>One scenario is the stand-alone xserver which just acts as terminal for
>remote access.

How would you manage remote access if you didn't at least have bash,
though?  Run xterm + cmd.exe, maybe?

cgf


  reply	other threads:[~2004-03-04 16:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-03-03 13:24 Øyvind Harboe
2004-03-03 13:51 ` Alexander Gottwald
2004-03-03 14:27   ` Harold L Hunt II
2004-03-04 15:00   ` Christopher Faylor
2004-03-04 15:07     ` Alexander Gottwald
2004-03-04 16:04       ` Christopher Faylor [this message]
2004-03-04 16:12         ` Igor Pechtchanski
2004-03-04 16:28           ` Harold L Hunt II
2004-03-04 16:26         ` Alexander Gottwald
2004-03-04  8:48 Øyvind Harboe

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