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From: Warren Young <wyml@etr-usa.com>
To: The Cygwin Mailing List <cygwin@cygwin.com>
Subject: Re: initial cygwin installation
Date: Wed, 28 Oct 2015 09:57:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <47B4DABC-9B81-41C8-97AD-27DFE4BEC864@etr-usa.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <6C4CE5F3-4754-4BBD-BCF2-E45EB42D70A1@etr-usa.com>

On Oct 28, 2015, at 12:05 AM, Warren Young <wyml@etr-usa.com> wrote:
> 
> 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. :)

Oh, and not that it really matters, but the message box you got is because by installing everything, you included the avahi package, and setuo.exe is telling you that unless you do not also have a third-party Apple package installed (Bonjour) it isn’t going to do anything useful.

But you don’t actually *want* Avahi, so its error message is confusing and annoying, because you aren’t going to actually do anything about it.

This is why you don’t go telling Cygwin to install *everything*.  You don’t want everything.
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  reply	other threads:[~2015-10-28  6:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
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2015-10-26 10:00 ` t s
2015-10-26 15:53   ` Andrey Repin
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2015-10-26 18:09       ` Fw: " t s
2015-10-27  1:16   ` Warren Young
2015-10-27 16:55     ` Nellis, Kenneth
2015-10-28  9:46       ` Warren Young
2015-10-28  9:57         ` Warren Young [this message]
2015-10-28 15:57           ` Csaba Raduly
2015-10-28 16:36             ` Andrey Repin
2015-10-29  6:25               ` t s
2015-11-04 20:45                 ` Fw: " t s
2015-11-04 21:21                   ` Mark Hansen
2015-10-29  3:59         ` Duncan Roe
2015-10-29  7:42           ` Andrey Repin
2015-10-29 21:55             ` Warren Young
2015-10-29 10:56           ` Achim Gratz
2015-10-31 21:01             ` Duncan Roe

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