Re: New Install May Have a Bug

[Charles Wilson <cwilson at ece dot gatech dot edu>]

Remember all of those complaints on the mailing list about "cygwin is 
too big"?  Remember the acrimony that resulted when we (the list) 
declared that we only support installations that included EVERY cygwin 
package?

The reason was because we had no ability to manage dependencies from 
setup.exe.

The new setup DOES handle dependencies, so if you select 'vim' you'll 
automatically get 'ncurses', etc.  Therefore, we can now allow/support 
partial installations.

Concommitant with that, the default installation is now a bare minimum 
of packages -- if you want more, you have to explicitly select the 
additional packages.

--Chuck


Mark Jones wrote:

> I tried to install Cygwin at a friend's last night and after it finished he
> did not have the program "less" installed, and his whole cygwin directory
> structure was only about 32 MB in size after the install.  I do not have a
> clean install as a reference point as I've already installed XFree86 on my
> own computer, but my /bin directory is over 50 MB, so if his whole directory
> structure is only 32 MB I suspect he is missing more than just "less".
> 
> I have helped others install it on their computers in the past (2-3 months
> ago) and have never had a problem, so I think something may have been broken
> recently in the install program.  I noticed the package listing interface is
> different now that a few months back, so I assume that part has changed,
> perhaps with an additional feature of a new bug.
> 
> Mark
> 
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