Robert Collins wrote:
>>> Can we remove more from base? >>> >> More is what? 3k? I'd love to have had it in the base install when >> I installed my cygwin - >> > > I support having a pager in the default install (which != > base!!!!!!!) Base: cygwin is non-functional and completely broken(*) unless each and every package in Base is installed. 'more' is not a requirement for a functioning cygwin installation. Therefore it shouldn't go in Base. (Yes, there are a few other packages in Base that probably don't belong there, but that's an issue for another day). Now, a Base-only cygwin installation may be *useless* in the sense that "sure, cygwin works -- but I can't do anything useful with it except mv files around, unless X Y and Z packages, which are not in Base, are installed." But useless is not the same as non-functional. (*) Yes, I know it's possible to configure certain specialized tasks with only (say) cygwin, sshd, and login (use c:\winnt\cmd.exe as the shell) -- but that's beyond the scope of the "normal" cygwin installation. > >> I want the basic development environment too - since what use is >> the environment without gcc? >> > > Lots. Squid. Apache. SSH. CVS. None of these require gcc. Web development. perl programming. Python programming. Document creation (tex/xfig). --Chuck
