From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 23466 invoked by alias); 3 Feb 2018 05:56:33 -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 22833 invoked by uid 89); 3 Feb 2018 05:56:33 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=0.1 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM,KAM_COUK,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,SPF_PASS autolearn=no version=3.3.2 spammy=H*u:6.1, H*UA:6.1, H*Ad:D*co.uk, H*M:yahoo X-HELO: sonic304-21.consmr.mail.ir2.yahoo.com Received: from sonic304-21.consmr.mail.ir2.yahoo.com (HELO sonic304-21.consmr.mail.ir2.yahoo.com) (77.238.179.146) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Sat, 03 Feb 2018 05:56:31 +0000 Received: from sonic.gate.mail.ne1.yahoo.com by sonic304.consmr.mail.ir2.yahoo.com with HTTP; Sat, 3 Feb 2018 05:56:29 +0000 Received: from smtp168.mail.ir2.yahoo.com (EHLO [192.168.0.10]) ([46.228.39.35]) by smtp416.mail.ir2.yahoo.com (JAMES SMTP Server ) with ESMTPA ID c6a67bf4f315da77fbfcd48815c20b62 for ; Sat, 03 Feb 2018 05:56:28 +0000 (UTC) To: Cygwin MailList From: "Ben via cygwin" Reply-To: Ben Subject: Searching full, portable Cygwin package for windows and NOT just the installer Message-ID: <38d7c1fc-4093-fad0-d7bd-03e6f869e09e@yahoo.co.uk> Date: Sat, 03 Feb 2018 05:56:00 -0000 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.6.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-15 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2018-02/txt/msg00016.txt.bz2 When I go to web page http://cygwin.com/ then I can download CygWin from there (currently the file "setup-x86_64.exe"). Unfortunately this file is just an installer which retrieves in turn several other files from Internet and remote servers. Since I have no overview what is downloaded from which server I distrust such installers in general. I prefer full packages which contains everything needed and can be inspected in advance (e.g. by virus scanners) before actual installation. 99,9% of all software is offered in such a way. Why use Cygwin such a fishy distribution way? Is there really no full package to download? Thank you Ben -- 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