From: Thorsten Kampe <thorsten@thorstenkampe.de>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: Where to find a reliable provider of CygwinX?
Date: Thu, 03 Feb 2011 09:09:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <iidrb8$ovl$1@dough.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <iic4it$f7$1@dough.gmane.org>
* Jørgen Steensgaard (Wed, 02 Feb 2011 18:34:15 +0100)
> I want to terminate this discussion, originating from my concern for
> consistency among distribution providers.
>
> Originally I reported on a successful installation of basic Cygwin, i.e.
> without X, followed by a failing attempt to install X. Of course I have
> been aware all the way that X did not come with the basic installation,
> and I have no idea of how to install X on top of it without using
> setup.exe by Cygwin. Still I am asked to specify how I obtained the
> packages for X, because they are not part of the basic installation.
>
> I see no reason to spend more time on this, the experience of which is
> like being part of an absurd comedy, to say it mildly. I feel confident
> that I can overcome the technical issues if I use the time on them instead.
You were asked simple and specific questions. You didn't bother to
answer these questions. That's not absurd but rather sad.
Thorsten
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-02-03 9:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-02-01 14:20 Jørgen Steensgaard
2011-02-01 15:45 ` marco atzeri
2011-02-01 16:26 ` Jørgen Steensgaard
2011-02-01 16:40 ` Larry Hall (Cygwin)
2011-02-01 18:14 ` Jørgen Steensgaard
2011-02-01 18:28 ` Christopher Faylor
2011-02-01 21:11 ` Jørgen Steensgaard
2011-02-01 21:27 ` Jeremy Bopp
2011-02-01 21:46 ` Christopher Faylor
2011-02-02 17:34 ` Jørgen Steensgaard
2011-02-03 9:09 ` Thorsten Kampe [this message]
2011-02-01 16:42 ` marco atzeri
2011-02-01 16:40 ` Csaba Raduly
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