From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 77605 invoked by alias); 28 Oct 2015 20:38:52 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 77593 invoked by uid 89); 28 Oct 2015 20:38:51 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=0.6 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_50,KAM_LAZY_DOMAIN_SECURITY,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW autolearn=no version=3.3.2 X-HELO: mail104.syd.optusnet.com.au Received: from mail104.syd.optusnet.com.au (HELO mail104.syd.optusnet.com.au) (211.29.132.246) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Wed, 28 Oct 2015 20:38:50 +0000 Received: from dimstar.local.net (c122-107-168-99.eburwd5.vic.optusnet.com.au [122.107.168.99]) by mail104.syd.optusnet.com.au (Postfix) with ESMTP id B5F3942B6CD for ; Thu, 29 Oct 2015 07:38:47 +1100 (AEDT) Received: (qmail 2790 invoked by uid 501); 28 Oct 2015 20:38:40 -0000 Date: Thu, 29 Oct 2015 03:59:00 -0000 From: Duncan Roe To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: initial cygwin installation Message-ID: <20151028203840.GA2663@dimstar.local.net> Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <0D835E9B9CD07F40A48423F80D3B5A702E93E7A0@USA7109MB022.na.xerox.net> <6C4CE5F3-4754-4BBD-BCF2-E45EB42D70A1@etr-usa.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <6C4CE5F3-4754-4BBD-BCF2-E45EB42D70A1@etr-usa.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.22 (2013-10-16) X-Optus-CM-Score: 0 X-Optus-CM-Analysis: v=2.1 cv=R6/+YolX c=1 sm=1 tr=0 a=+cDhJlqnNvz9E7c5l3ERGg==:117 a=+cDhJlqnNvz9E7c5l3ERGg==:17 a=y26AOypDAAAA:8 a=PO7r1zJSAAAA:8 a=iaFubHWvAAAA:8 a=kj9zAlcOel0A:10 a=5lJygRwiOn0A:10 a=uPZiAMpXAAAA:8 a=t-IPkPogAAAA:8 a=Xph_S1VAOncVHLZiQdkA:9 a=CjuIK1q_8ugA:10 X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2015-10/txt/msg00519.txt.bz2 On Wed, Oct 28, 2015 at 12:05:06AM -0600, Warren Young wrote: > On Oct 27, 2015, at 7:21 AM, Nellis, Kenneth wrote: > > > > From: Warren Young > >> > >> On Oct 25, 2015, at 3:11 PM, t s wrote: > >>> > >>> Q: How do I install everything? > >>> A: You do not want to do this! > >> > >> I explain this in more detail here: > >> > >> http://stackoverflow.com/a/21233990 > > > > For the hell of it I decided to check out this hidden feature. > > What I got was two dialog boxes popping up talking about > > Cygwin limitations, something about "this port of Avahi", > > references to Apple's "Bounjour mDNSResponder" service, > > and a link to http://support.apple.com/kb/DL999. > > > > What's up with that? > > That???s actually a great illustration of the point I tried to make. > > You just asked setup.exe to install a whole bunch of software you do not > actually need, so when it starts asking you questions about what you want done > with this software, you are lost, because you don???t even know what the > software *is*, much less how to use it. > > So don???t do that. :) > As it happens, I also saw that message last night. I only wanted to *reinstall* everything I had installed previously, owing to AVG antivirus having deleted I don't know what. I configured AVG to never look at C:\cygwin64 in future but was that the best I could have done? Cheers ... Duncan. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple