On 6/24/10 8:44 AM, Malcolm Greene wrote: > In the process of installing Cygwin 1.7.5 and ... holy smokes ... > there's a ton of library options!! > > Pragmatically speaking, what's a reasonable choice of libraries > or should I just select them all? > > I've the full set of choices and I think I can reasonably exclude > the Accessability and Games libraries and possibly the Python > libraries (because I have my own Python environment). I'm not > sure about the Database, KDE, Gnone, and X11 libraries - I don't > think I will need these unless these libraries are dependencies > for other libraries?
If you install everything it will take hours to install. And you'll never use everything. I usually install the default base things, and go back and add things I find I need later. This is rare, the default installation comes with everything I find I need. Paul _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[email protected] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
