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From: "Chris J. Breisch" <chris.ml@breisch.org>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: setup.exe different packages
Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2014 16:05:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <52E926B1.30804@breisch.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <loom.20140129T130612-117@post.gmane.org>

Achim Gratz wrote:
>
> They are, if you don't fiddle with a checkbox that you shouldn't be able to
> toggle in the first place.  In other words it's a bug in the GUI that you
> are able to bypass the install of some Base packages.
>
No, I don't agree with that statement. I'd be more inclined to believe 
that it's a bug in the command-line interface that doesn't allow you to 
do what the GUI does.

The default installation package selected by the GUI is by no means a 
minimally useful one, and there are many reasons why one might want to 
install fewer packages than it includes. Being able to do so hardly 
seems like a bug.

Frankly, I was surprised the dependency tree for bash was so large. Bash 
depends on texinfo? I see the chain that gets you there, but it still 
surprised me.

>
> Regards,
> Achim.
>
>


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  reply	other threads:[~2014-01-29 16:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-01-28 14:41 BGINFO4X
2014-01-28 15:08 ` Marco Atzeri
     [not found]   ` <CAO2ddnY2UjXnqGJ0ve3bLkH4pctYK-2YdrO1jVpJEjnbYQHwCg@mail.gmail.com>
2014-01-28 17:18     ` BGINFO4X
2014-01-28 18:31       ` Achim Gratz
2014-01-29  9:19         ` BGINFO4X
2014-01-29 10:31           ` Chris J. Breisch
2014-01-29 10:46             ` BGINFO4X
2014-01-29 12:11           ` Achim Gratz
2014-01-29 16:05             ` Chris J. Breisch [this message]
2014-01-29 16:25               ` Achim Gratz
2014-01-29 16:39                 ` Larry Hall (Cygwin)
2014-01-29 18:11                   ` BGINFO4X
2014-01-29 19:58                     ` Larry Hall (Cygwin)
2014-01-28 18:19 ` Chris J. Breisch
2014-02-01 11:57   ` Marco Atzeri

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