RE: setup.exe suggestions

["Ralf Habacker" <Ralf.Habacker@freenet.de>]

> ---- Original Message -----
> From: "Le Chat Noir" <tergiversator@softhome.net>
> To: <cygwin@cygwin.com>
> Sent: Thursday, November 15, 2001 4:10 AM
> Subject: setup.exe suggestions
> 
> 
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > firstly, forgive me for mentioning anything that's already been said,
> I don't read the mailing list, I just wanted to give feedback/make a
> suggestion to the Cygwin dev team.
> >
> > With setup.exe, there are two small, obvious features missing which
> would streamline it even further:
> >
> > 1) Remember the last setting for all choices, up until and including
> mirror.
> 
> Added to the wishlist.
> 
> > 2) A way to quickly select/deselect all packages; I went to make a
> bare Cygwin installation, and deselecting almost every package was
> v.tiresome!
> 
> This does not make sense long term. Consider conflicting packages (ie a
> SSL mutt and a non-SSL mutt). We will eventually be unable to have all
> packages installed. So selecting all is not useful. Also, with
> dependencies, you dont' need to select all packages to have cygwin
> supported here. Simlpy pick the package you want, and everything it
> needs will come in automatically.
> 
Perhaps it might be good to have a possibility to select predefined 
configurations like suse linux yast allow. 
For example 
	basic 	
	web environment 
	delevopment 
	xfree 
	... 

Ralf 
> Rob
> 
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