You'll also notice by a quick search of the ML that this has been
mentioned in past emails, and a fix is being incorporated into setup, IIRC
;-)
-Collin Grady
Seen it all, done it all, can't remember most of it.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Gene C. Ruzicka" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Collin Grady" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, December 12, 2001 12:39 AM
Subject: Re: Installed Cygwin, no 'cc'?
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Collin Grady" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: "John Russell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Tuesday, December 11, 2001 9:19 PM
> Subject: Re: Installed Cygwin, no 'cc'?
>
>
> > The trick is to go through one by one and select them all ;-)
> > -Collin Grady
> >
> > Support bacteria - they're the only culture some people have.
> >
>
> yes, but a far better, more foolproof, and easier solution would simply to
> include in setup.exe an easily invoked option, say, a single checkbox,
that
> would allow someone to download everything. it's a REAL PAIN
> checking all those boxes, and the process of learning that one
> MUST do that to get everything is even more painful. i speak as
> a--rapidly aging--cygwin newbie who had to check ALL the
> boxes in the not too distant past. keep in mind that the people
> who want to install EVERYTHING are disproportionately
> newbies, so porviding a simple way to allow that to happen
> seems sensible.
>
> gene
>
>
>
>
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