From: Andrew Volkov <Andrew.Volkov@transas.com>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: [feature-request] Installation Tool: Create profiles as meaningful collection of packages
Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2001 03:41:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <2E74F312D6980D459F3A05492BA40F8D34DCDA@clue.transas.com> (raw)
Hi all,
Absolutelly agree with Johannes
How about to converting setup.exe in dpkg (or rpm) like program, and
setup.ini in dpkg/rpm format?
Andrey
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Johannes Brodwall [ mailto:johannes@brodwall.com ]
> Sent: Friday, October 26, 2001 1:25 PM
> To: cygwin@cygwin.com
> Subject: [feature-request] Installation Tool: Create profiles
> as meaningful collection of packages
>
>
> Hi,
> I have found that personally, the setup.exe installation is not very
> convenient. With 80+ packages, ranging from critical (ash), to useful
> (fileutils) to unusable without external help (postgresql - requires
> cygipc), I always end up installing all the packages available for
> simplicity. I currently have a very high-speed internet
> connection and a
> large hard drive, but this is not always the case.
>
> What would be very useful would be to have a set of profiles
> to select from.
> Some examples of profiles could be "minimal installation",
> "development
> platform", and "full". In addition to answering the question
> "will cygwin
> not work if I don't install this", it will make it more
> practical to select
> a partial installation, something that currently requires a
> lot of clicking
> around. Is anything like this planned?
>
> The motivation for me asking this question might be somewhat
> interesting.
> My dad, a lawyer, wants to understand better the inner workings of
> computers. I decided that teaching him C would be a good
> place to start.
> However, both his computer and connection are very low-end,
> so downloading
> all of cygwin is not an optimal way of getting gcc. I really want to
> introduce the concept of open-source to him as much as
> possible as well,
> because I believe it is important that people working with
> law understand
> the issues involved better.
>
> I could not find any message addressing this in the archives.
>
> Sincerely,
> ~Johannes
>
>
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next reply other threads:[~2001-10-26 3:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-10-26 3:41 Andrew Volkov [this message]
2001-10-26 4:13 ` [feature-request] Installation Tool: Create profiles as meaningfu l " Gerrit P. Haase
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2001-10-26 5:19 [feature-request] Installation Tool: Create profiles as meaningful " Schaible, Jörg
2001-10-26 4:11 [feature-request] Installation Tool: Create profiles as meaningfu l " "Schaible, Jörg"
2001-10-26 4:28 ` [feature-request] Installation Tool: Create profiles as meaningful " David Starks-Browning
2001-10-26 2:25 Johannes Brodwall
2001-10-26 8:38 ` Christopher Faylor
2001-10-26 8:40 ` Charles Wilson
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