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From: Ryan Johnson <ryanjohn@ece.cmu.edu>
Cc: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: RE: startxwin/XWin won't start properly
Date: Wed, 30 Jun 2010 16:12:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4C2B6CC5.1040603@ece.cmu.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <270AA78168E41541833C52448F4F34AD2373AF6A@VHAISHMSGJ2.vha.med.va.gov>

>
> 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.

Migration wizard would have been nice...

Ryan



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  parent reply	other threads:[~2010-06-30 16:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-06-29 14:50 Bradley, Mike
2010-06-29 14:55 ` Markus Hoenicka
2010-06-29 15:23   ` Bradley, Mike
2010-06-29 15:44     ` Markus Hoenicka
2010-06-29 15:48       ` Bradley, Mike
2010-06-29 22:39 ` Larry Hall (Cygwin X)
2010-06-29 22:56   ` Bradley, Mike
2010-06-30  1:49     ` Larry Hall (Cygwin X)
2010-06-30  5:07       ` Bradley, Mike
     [not found]         ` <4C2AD3D0.60707@cygwin.com>
2010-06-30 14:02           ` Timares, Brian (Harris)
2010-06-30 14:12             ` Bradley, Mike
     [not found]             ` <20100630141511.GB20060@ednor.casa.cgf.cx>
2010-06-30 14:20               ` Tim Prince
2010-06-30 15:23               ` Timares, Brian (Harris)
2010-06-30 15:52                 ` Setup retaining or saving package selections (was: startxwin/XWin won't start properly) Timares, Brian (Harris)
2010-06-30 18:18                   ` Christopher Faylor
2010-06-30 16:12                 ` Ryan Johnson [this message]
2010-06-30 18:01                   ` RE: startxwin/XWin won't start properly Christopher Faylor
2010-06-30 17:35                 ` Larry Hall (Cygwin X)
     [not found]         ` <20100630141036.GA20060@ednor.casa.cgf.cx>
2010-06-30 14:36           ` Bradley, Mike
2010-06-30 14:43             ` Christopher Faylor

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