From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 2102 invoked by alias); 15 Nov 2001 10:18:20 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 2068 invoked from network); 15 Nov 2001 10:18:13 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO extern11.lif.de) (149.233.74.11) by sourceware.cygnus.com with SMTP; 15 Nov 2001 10:18:13 -0000 Received: from FW ([10.1.1.1]) by extern11.lif.de (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id LAA03237 for ; Thu, 15 Nov 2001 11:17:54 +0100 (MET) Received: from mail.saght.tessag.com (mail.saght.tessag.com [183.1.1.104]) by uxhv01.sagmbh.de (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA26133 for ; Thu, 15 Nov 2001 11:13:31 +0100 (MET) Received: from BRAMSCHE [10.68.28.101] by mail.saght.tessag.com (SMTPD32-5.05) id A89DB10176; Thu, 15 Nov 2001 11:27:41 +0100 From: "Ralf Habacker" To: "Cygwin" Subject: RE: setup.exe suggestions Date: Sun, 11 Nov 2001 08:26:00 -0000 Message-ID: <000301c16dbf$489c79c0$651c440a@BRAMSCHE> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook 8.5, Build 4.71.2173.0 Importance: Normal In-Reply-To: <040301c16d52$f732ec20$0200a8c0@lifelesswks> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 X-SW-Source: 2001-11/txt/msg00271.txt.bz2 > ---- Original Message ----- > From: "Le Chat Noir" > To: > 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 > > > -- > Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple > Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html > Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html > FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ > > -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/