Rance Hall sent the following at Tuesday, January 05, 2010 10:13 AM > >I'm running cygwin 1.7.x and I've been pretty faithful with running >setup again when updates are announced. > >I've noticed that setup remembers almost all the answers from the >previous run, so if you are just doing an update you should be able to >just "NEXT" through it. > >The very last page of the setup includes options of creating >desktop/quicklaunch shortcuts. > >Because I run mintty I chose not to have the basic cygwin shell prompt >on my desktop. Setup seems unable to remember what my choice was each >time I run setup. > >I think this is undesired behavior. If you are running a desktop icon >the setup process shouldn't make a second one. > >I couldn't find a place where this data might be stored so, my >conclusion was either its not stored at all, or I'm just plain wrong. > >On the chance I'm right: I'd like to see the defaults change to "OFF" >unless its a "first" install and there is no sub structure (ie no /etc, >/var, /bin, .....) > >On the chance I'm wrong and the data in question is stored, can setup >respect previous entries?
You can run setup wuith the -n option. See http://cygwin.com/faq/faq-nochunks.html#faq.setup.cli - Barry Disclaimer: Statements made herein are not made on behalf of NIAID. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple