From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 5123 invoked by alias); 25 Jul 2010 03:00:46 -0000 Received: (qmail 5107 invoked by uid 22791); 25 Jul 2010 03:00:45 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.0 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,DKIM_SIGNED,DKIM_VALID,DKIM_VALID_AU,FREEMAIL_FROM,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,T_TO_NO_BRKTS_FREEMAIL X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from mail-px0-f171.google.com (HELO mail-px0-f171.google.com) (209.85.212.171) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Sun, 25 Jul 2010 03:00:38 +0000 Received: by pxi10 with SMTP id 10so11606969pxi.2 for ; Sat, 24 Jul 2010 20:00:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.142.215.14 with SMTP id n14mr6683405wfg.94.1280026837044; Sat, 24 Jul 2010 20:00:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: from edith.local (c-67-183-23-114.hsd1.wa.comcast.net [67.183.23.114]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id w8sm2297388wfd.7.2010.07.24.20.00.35 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Sat, 24 Jul 2010 20:00:36 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4C4BA8D3.8040009@gmail.com> Date: Sun, 25 Jul 2010 04:02:00 -0000 From: Daniel Colascione User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; en-US; rv:1.9.2.7) Gecko/20100713 Thunderbird/3.1.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: mabrams001@bham.rr.com, cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Request for feature: more flexible setup routine References: <30EAF1C130A74F97AC4C82B42ED55DAE@hometoshiba> In-Reply-To: <30EAF1C130A74F97AC4C82B42ED55DAE@hometoshiba> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes 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 X-SW-Source: 2010-07/txt/msg00530.txt.bz2 On 7/24/10 5:10 PM, Marshall Abrams wrote: > I have one suggestion: I wish that the setup routine was better for... > users like me who mainly want to get work done, don't care necessarily > care whether we have the latest versions of every package (honestly, > most of package changes are irrelevant to most people most of the time > (OK, until you need it...)), and more than anything else, don't want to > break anything that works. I understand your desire to be conservative, but 1.7 works rather well. It's not particularly painful, and you can just back up your installation (perhaps with tar --one-file-system) before trying it out. Also, keep in mind that you're not required to use Cygwin's package system. Just as in any other unixy system, can you compile the latest version of whatever package you need from source and stick the the result in /usr/local. (I recommend using GNU stow and DESTDIR to keep everything straight.) -- 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