On 3/1/2011 1:46 PM, Andy Koppe wrote:
Good idea, although that would entail unnecessary (and unwanted)
updates, for example, the Cygwin DLL would get updated whatever
package you installed, even if the package was built years ago.
Indeed and upgrading Cygwin itself is the very thing I was trying
to avoid.
On the other hand, Cygwin package maintainers do a pretty good job of
not breaking existing setups, so "update everything" (to the "curr"
version) is usually a safe bet.
True, and anything else is unsupported.
Fair enough.
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