Brandon J. Van Every wrote:
I have a reasonably healthy Cygwin installation that I typically use to build various HLL compilers. One of these compilers needed the "zip" tool in order to be built. So I fired up Cygwin and clicked to install "zip." Well, instead of doing just that, it also started installing Ruby, and TeTex, and seemingly a whole bunch of other things. I know for fact that the simple "zip" tool is not dependent upon this stuff, so I am wondering why Cygwin is installing it all.
It is irritating because I'm on a dialup, and I just wanted to grab the small "zip" tool and keep going with my real work. Instead I'm waiting waiting waiting waiting on piles of downloads that I'm too lazy to go in and figure out.
Guesses and conjectures:
- is Cygwin pushing new versions of stuff I previously downloaded? That would be BAD. That would mean that every time I use a dialup, I'm likely to get more new stuff that takes a long time to download that I don't really want.
Yes. There is a radio button in setup.exe called 'Keep', toggle it and then switch to the 'Full' view using the 'View' button to get the complete package listing, now select zip.
- is Cygwin just fulfilling a broken download I started earlier? I did try to grab TeTex the other week, and I thought it finished, but I never did use it or test it. In this case, I'd really like to prioritize my downloads. When I download "zip," for me that means "I want zip NOW." I don't want it in alphabetical order.
HTH, Gerrit -- =^..^=
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