From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 8270 invoked by alias); 4 Mar 2004 16:04:10 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-xfree-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-xfree-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com Reply-To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 8263 invoked from network); 4 Mar 2004 16:04:09 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO redhat.com) (66.187.230.200) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 4 Mar 2004 16:04:09 -0000 Received: by redhat.com (Postfix, from userid 201) id B28EB40000F; Thu, 4 Mar 2004 11:04:08 -0500 (EST) Date: Thu, 04 Mar 2004 16:04:00 -0000 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Reducing configuration headaches for cygwin-xfree Message-ID: <20040304160408.GC21030@redhat.com> Reply-To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com References: <1078320234.8051.43.camel@famine> <20040304140613.GA18789@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i X-SW-Source: 2004-03/txt/msg00115.txt.bz2 List-Id: 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