Re: RE: startxwin/XWin won't start properly

[Christopher Faylor <cgf-use-the-mailinglist-please@cygwin.com>]

On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 06:11:49PM +0200, Ryan Johnson wrote:
>>
>> What Mike and I want is actually pretty reasonable.  We want to be able
>> to preserve the work we do in picking the wheat from the chaff (from our
>> point of view) to avoid having our coworkers or ourselves duplicate that
>> work, whether they understand Unix or not (I'm sorry I brought it up!
>> It is largely irrelevant.).  It seems simple--at some point the Setup
>> program knows what was selected.  It just needs to save it out and be
>> able to read it back in.
>>    
>vote +1
>
>I've also had this need many times. Most recently, the update to the 
>latest cygwin dll, which the instructions specifically said should be a 
>clean install rather than an in-place upgrade.

Sheesh.  The instructions did *not* say that a clean install was needed.
We tried hard to make sure that wasn't necessary in fact.

--
Unsubscribe info:      http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
Problem reports:       http://cygwin.com/problems.html
Documentation:         http://x.cygwin.com/docs/
FAQ:                   http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/