On Fri, Oct 26, 2001 at 11:25:30AM +0200, Johannes Brodwall wrote: >Hi, >I have found that personally, the setup.exe installation is not very >convenient. With 80+ packages, ranging from critical (ash), to useful >(fileutils) to unusable without external help (postgresql - requires >cygipc), I always end up installing all the packages available for >simplicity. I currently have a very high-speed internet connection and a >large hard drive, but this is not always the case. > >What would be very useful would be to have a set of profiles to select from. >Some examples of profiles could be "minimal installation", "development >platform", and "full". In addition to answering the question "will cygwin >not work if I don't install this", it will make it more practical to select >a partial installation, something that currently requires a lot of clicking >around. Is anything like this planned? > >The motivation for me asking this question might be somewhat interesting. >My dad, a lawyer, wants to understand better the inner workings of >computers. I decided that teaching him C would be a good place to start. >However, both his computer and connection are very low-end, so downloading >all of cygwin is not an optimal way of getting gcc. I really want to >introduce the concept of open-source to him as much as possible as well, >because I believe it is important that people working with law understand >the issues involved better. > >I could not find any message addressing this in the archives.
Then you really weren't looking very hard at all since this has been discussed repeatedly. cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
