----- Original Message ----- From: "Yaakov (Cygwin/X)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, December 09, 2008 1:44 AM Subject: Re: [Cygwin-ports-general] cygwin-ports + setup.exe = an utter pain?
> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA256 > > Andreas Eibach wrote: > > I can only hope that Cygwin-Ports will someday be integrated into normal > > cygwin. > > My goal is that when Cygwin 1.7 is released, that Ports will only > supplement the distro with additional packages, rather than now where > Ports replaces a number of packages in the distro. > > > For I really do not like it if Cygwin (orig.) setup insists a zillion > > times on installing old GTK+ because it thinks it's "latest", breaking > > everything else. (And wasting a lot of my precious time for nothing) > > If you follow the directions exactly every time you run setup.exe, this > will not happen. WHAT directions? You don't mean I have to run the 'sed ...' scripting hack _multiple_ times? Well, I've only run it exactly once - at the very beginning. Ah, so if that's where my problems come from ;) -Andreas ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ SF.Net email is Sponsored by MIX09, March 18-20, 2009 in Las Vegas, Nevada. The future of the web can't happen without you. Join us at MIX09 to help pave the way to the Next Web now. Learn more and register at http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;208669438;13503038;i?http://2009.visitmix.com/ _______________________________________________ Cygwin-ports-general mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/cygwin-ports-general
