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Re: New Install May Have a Bug
- From: Charles Wilson <cwilson at ece dot gatech dot edu>
- To: Mark Jones <mark_umr at excite dot com>
- Cc: Stephano Mariani <sk dot cygml at btinternet dot com>, cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2001 16:28:14 -0500
- Subject: Re: New Install May Have a Bug
- References: <26149776.1006893828617.JavaMail.imail@blizzard.excite.com>
Mark Jones wrote:
> First, thanks for the reply.
>
> I understand the reasoning behind the choice, but I would suggest adding a
> little more to the standard of minimum. Users of any UNIX like system
> expect more/less to be present. I think it will turn people off, and Linux
> users that install it will figure the install failed to work properly (like
> my friend and I did) or will think Cygwin just doesn't have less or more
> ported over to it and assume that Cygwin is not mature yet.
>
> That is my thoughts on the matter.
That's probably not a bad idea. Robert (Chris? Who maintains less?),
should 'less' be added to the Base package?
> As I side note, I would have something other than TWM be the default WM for
> X, anything other than TWM, such as IceWM, FVWM, lesstif's MWM, etc.
That is off-topic for this list. All X related questions should go to
cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com
--Chuck
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