From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andrew Volkov 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 Message-id: <2E74F312D6980D459F3A05492BA40F8D34DCDA@clue.transas.com> X-SW-Source: 2001-10/msg01439.html 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 > > > -- > 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/