From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 7741 invoked by alias); 30 Jun 2010 16:12:10 -0000 Received: (qmail 7594 invoked by uid 22791); 30 Jun 2010 16:12:08 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-0.3 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_05,MISSING_HEADERS,T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from BACHE.ECE.CMU.EDU (HELO bache.ece.cmu.edu) (128.2.129.23) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Wed, 30 Jun 2010 16:12:03 +0000 Received: from [192.168.0.2] (139-198.2-85.cust.bluewin.ch [85.2.198.139]) by bache.ece.cmu.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 646EADF for ; Wed, 30 Jun 2010 12:11:55 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <4C2B6CC5.1040603@ece.cmu.edu> Date: Wed, 30 Jun 2010 16:12:00 -0000 From: Ryan Johnson User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1.10) Gecko/20100512 Lightning/1.0b1 Thunderbird/3.0.5 MIME-Version: 1.0 CC: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com Subject: Re: RE: startxwin/XWin won't start properly References: <270AA78168E41541833C52448F4F34AD2373AF6A@VHAISHMSGJ2.vha.med.va.gov> In-Reply-To: <270AA78168E41541833C52448F4F34AD2373AF6A@VHAISHMSGJ2.vha.med.va.gov> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mailing-List: contact cygwin-xfree-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-xfree-owner@cygwin.com Reply-To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com X-SW-Source: 2010-06/txt/msg00070.txt.bz2 > > 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 -- 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/