From: Brian Inglis <Brian.Inglis@SystematicSw.ab.ca>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: Future of 32-bit distro
Date: Sat, 13 Jan 2018 01:56:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3cee5fb6-06d5-d592-a430-bebf2e116614@SystematicSw.ab.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7218003ac95dc6814bbb309dda3df748@smtp-cloud8.xs4all.net>
On 2018-01-12 13:23, Houder wrote:
> On Fri, 12 Jan 2018 12:33:46, Keith Christian wrote:
>> I run the 32 bit Cygwin on a 64 bit Windows 7 machine and install
>> everything, because it has been unnecessary to waste time picking and
>> choosing packages even though I don't use them all. I've been doing
>> this for years and suspect many other Cygwin aficionados do the same.
> Every package? For years?
> Have there always been that many packages? (currently more than 8000).
> Out of the more than 8000 packages, I only install a couple of hundred.
More than 10k with ~650(/800) obsolete pointing to newer replacements.
I've got over 1300 on x64 with X, plus doc, devel, debuginfo variants.
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Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-01-11 12:31 rebase-4.4.3-1 regression: Too many DLLs for available address space Christian Franke
2018-01-11 16:06 ` Corinna Vinschen
2018-01-11 17:53 ` Achim Gratz
2018-01-11 17:56 ` Corinna Vinschen
2018-01-11 21:52 ` Denis Excoffier
2018-01-12 9:13 ` Corinna Vinschen
2018-01-12 18:11 ` Future of 32-bit distro (was: rebase-4.4.3-1 regression: Too many DLLs for available address space) Yaakov Selkowitz
2018-01-12 19:02 ` Future of 32-bit distro Brian Inglis
2018-01-12 19:33 ` Keith Christian
[not found] ` <7218003ac95dc6814bbb309dda3df748@smtp-cloud8.xs4all.net>
2018-01-13 1:56 ` Brian Inglis [this message]
2018-01-13 2:15 ` Keith Christian
2018-01-12 19:40 ` Steven Penny
2018-01-12 20:20 ` Future of 32-bit distro (was: rebase-4.4.3-1 regression: Too many DLLs for available address space) Vince Rice
2018-01-12 22:00 ` Keith Christian
2018-01-13 9:11 ` Future of 32-bit distro David Stacey
2018-01-12 17:16 ` rebase-4.4.3-1 regression: Too many DLLs for available address space Thomas Waldmann
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