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Re: "minimal cygwin ?"


At 06:55 AM 9/12/2004, you wrote:
>Hello *,
>
>Has anyone tailored a "minimal cywin install" with just the absolutely
>"required" cygwin components ?
>
>Explanation: I'd like to distribute cygwin to a farm of older nt systems
>             with restricted discspace
>             My favorite approach would be, to distribute a "minimal system"
>             and add an additional sw package only on hosts with enough space
>
>is that doable, and has someone size estimations ?


A google search should unearth something on this topic.  The key has always
been the definition of "minimal".  The list of required packages depends
very much on what tools you want to use.  'setup.ini' might be a help to 
you here if you're trying to figure out the specifics for your needs.



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