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RE: info: single install xfree86 + minimal cygwin?
- From: "Robert Collins" <robert dot collins at itdomain dot com dot au>
- To: "Ian Burrell" <iburrell at znark dot com>
- Cc: <cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com>,<cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2002 11:00:32 +1000
- Subject: RE: info: single install xfree86 + minimal cygwin?
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ian Burrell [mailto:iburrell@znark.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, April 10, 2002 10:57 AM
> That is a list of subdirectories. But it won't work since the each
> package needs its own subdirectory. A better hiearchy would use the
> components from the package names. Hopefully, multiple levels of
> subdirectories will work.
>
> xfree:
> base:
...
> xvfb:
> xfree-xvfb-4.2.0.tar.bz2
As a directory layout, that should be fine.
> >
> > Those refinements can be made at any point - there's no
> need to have it
> > perfect on first release. Setup.exe is quite capable of
> handling files
> > moving from one package to another now.
> >
>
> They were simple changes to the script I wrote to repackage the
> distributed archives. I'll try to write proper setup.hint
> files for all
> the packages.
Cool.
Rob