On Sun 07 Jul 2002 at 15:35:22 -0400, Charles Wilson wrote: > However, it SHOULD be possible -- and checking the ml archives on this > will help -- to create a custom 'setup.ini' script or pseudo-package > that setup.exe can read, to install ONLY what you want -- but this will > take a little work on your part. Again, check the archives.
Thanks, I will do that. I was indeed alerted by Slashdot to cygwin/xfree. I remember trying it some time ago, but back then it was more difficult to get going, if I got it going at all (I don't remember exactly). So in that view, there is a lot of progress :-) > These are all part of the 'Base' category. If you explicitly > de-selected specific items -- even if they are in the 'Base' category -- > then setup shouldn't even download them. There may be a bug in > setup.exe's handling of the Base category. Sorry about that. At least I am glad it did not install them, since that saves me the trouble of verifying that they are really not necessary. > (*) that is, cygwin-xfree should work OOB on a standalong machine > without any external font server, at least by default. Do we really > want a windows newbie to understand "oh, I also need to install the > fonts". Of course not -- we do that by default IF the user installs X. > [Linux distros do this too, you know -- if you install XFree86 on Red > Hat, you *will* get the fonts.] You have a point. But I also think that there will be "lots" of people who would like cygwin/xfree to be a replacement for XWin-32 or other similar products, so some configuration preset for that would come in handy. > --Chuck Thanks, -Olaf. -- ___ Olaf 'Rhialto' Seibert -- The evil eye is caused by the black \X/ rhialto/at/xs4all.nl -- tongue - Tom Poes, "Het boze oog", 4456.
