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From: ping <songpingemail@gmail.com>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: best way to re-install and keep cygwin configuration
Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2012 15:32:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <50003F84.7020603@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <176672993.20120713050916@mtu-net.ru>


On 07/12/2012 09:09 PM, Andrey Repin wrote:
> Greetings, LMH!
>
>
> Totally unnecessary. If you've maintained your installation for quite some
> time, updating regularly, then setup cache contains lots of obsolete packages.
> Would be much, much faster to just burn it and download new setup.exe when you
> need it.
>

this sound to me that I made a mistake.
I typically when got a new pc, or a new installation of OS, just 
download setup.exe
and install "ALL" a/v package, in order to ease the future usage.
but now it typically takes 1 or 2 days to finish, considering also 
install cygwin port packages...
I'll install based on a "install-on-need" base...next time.

b.t.w., comparing with a "real" linux, like ubuntu, the current cygwin 
package maintenance tool
seems still in the raw stage , comparing with apt-get machanism ... not 
to complain..

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      parent reply	other threads:[~2012-07-13 15:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-07-12 18:08 LMH
2012-07-12 20:10 ` Earnie Boyd
2012-07-12 20:28   ` Larry Hall (Cygwin)
2012-07-12 20:31     ` Earnie Boyd
2012-07-12 20:39       ` Larry Hall (Cygwin)
2012-07-12 20:44         ` K Stahl
2012-07-12 21:04         ` LMH
2012-07-12 21:42           ` Larry Hall (Cygwin)
2012-07-13  1:20 ` Andrey Repin
2012-07-13  2:14   ` LMH
2012-07-13  5:53     ` Mark Geisert
2012-07-13 15:59     ` James Johnston
2012-07-13 15:32   ` ping [this message]

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