From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 15100 invoked by alias); 29 Jan 2014 17:34:31 -0000 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 Received: (qmail 15090 invoked by uid 89); 29 Jan 2014 17:34:30 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-0.4 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_20,FREEMAIL_FROM,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW,SPF_PASS autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 X-HELO: mail-ob0-f178.google.com Received: from mail-ob0-f178.google.com (HELO mail-ob0-f178.google.com) (209.85.214.178) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with (AES128-SHA encrypted) ESMTPS; Wed, 29 Jan 2014 17:34:28 +0000 Received: by mail-ob0-f178.google.com with SMTP id wn1so2330441obc.9 for ; Wed, 29 Jan 2014 09:34:26 -0800 (PST) X-Received: by 10.182.107.232 with SMTP id hf8mr1474828obb.75.1391016866292; Wed, 29 Jan 2014 09:34:26 -0800 (PST) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.76.22.47 with HTTP; Wed, 29 Jan 2014 09:33:46 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <2510386891.20140129202434@mtu-net.ru> References: <2510386891.20140129202434@mtu-net.ru> From: Ilja Umov Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2014 17:34:00 -0000 Message-ID: Subject: Re: Cygwin installer could be much more better To: cygwin@cygwin.com, Andrey Repin Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-SW-Source: 2014-01/txt/msg00490.txt.bz2 On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 6:24 PM, Andrey Repin wrote: >> there is a certainly a good historical reason why cygwin installer >> has so many options. But now one-click installers are so common >> (Google Chrome is the best example), it may look rather scary, >> especially for beginners. > > Google chrome is an ONE package. > Cygwin setup installs about a ton of them. > There's no confusion, there's options. Chrome has `about:flags`. I sometimes like to toy around with them too. But again, I usually don't. Picture of `about:flags`, _(which redirects to `chrome://flags/`)_: http://imgur.com/0zO69ZF -- Ilja Umov https://iljau.me/ -- 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