On Tue, 17 May 2005 14:31:45 -0700, 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?
No. Only if it is installed. > - is Cygwin just fulfilling a broken download I started earlier? No. You always get the dependencies and updates (until you manually deselect them). Thorsten -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/