From: Richard Campbell <richard.campbell@air2web.com>
To: "'cygwin@cygwin.com'" <cygwin@cygwin.com>
Subject: RE: [Mingw-users] Cygwin Full download in one big archive ?
Date: Thu, 05 Dec 2002 06:46:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <DF08E278E10FC14F87CE7E802ABFD04B039253AA@EXCHANGE01.air2web.com> (raw)
>Impractical. As I said, almost 100% of people won't want 100% of packages.
It might be interesting to poll in some way, considering how often this
comes up. I suspect more than "almost 0%" might want a 1-button,
overnight-style install.
>Frankly, this odd method only makes the slightest sense in your unusual
>situation (downloads constricted by number of files not file size).
I have every package selected, and as new packages appear I install
them.
>tetex ? (Document processing system)
>lilypond ? (Sheet music production)
>
>Both multi-megabyte packages for very specialized requirements.
Got them both. Haven't used either yet, but if I want to they are
installed and up to date.
-Richard Campbell.
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2002-12-05 6:46 Richard Campbell [this message]
2002-12-05 6:57 ` Max Bowsher
2002-12-05 8:18 ` Brian Gallew
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2002-12-05 14:18 ` [Mingw-users] cygwin " Christopher Faylor
2002-12-05 14:20 ` [Mingw-users] Cygwin " Robert Collins
2002-12-05 15:39 ` [FAQ?] " Charles Wilson
2002-12-05 15:55 ` Robert Collins
2002-12-05 16:32 ` Charles Wilson
2002-12-05 18:33 ` Robert Collins
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2002-12-05 6:57 Richard Campbell
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2002-12-03 14:06 ` Max Bowsher
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2002-12-04 9:49 ` Max Bowsher
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