I did not change anything in the "Publishing" section, so all were at default, unless one of my other choices chnaged them due to dependencies (see end of this post as well). Elsewhere as far as I remember I added all of X11, python, and editors, rxvt , tcsh shell, and Imagemagick. Of those the only mildly suspicious one is the tex wysiwyg editor.
I seem to have ended up with your "standard" install (according to the texlive advice that you pointed me to) when I look at the things in publishing marked "KEEP" and referring to "texlive" (e.g. have the ...latexrecommended one). (Is there any other way to know what non standard items one chose in the future?). The key timings in the full log file are: 13:23 started whole process 15:00 postinstall started 15:12-15:56 texlive things 16:08-16:56 more texlive things 17:00 finished so I make it 90 mins out of 210 mins were texlive. Maybe that is as it should be, but is this what would happen if I had not touched the "default" install settings? I think like others, I nearly lost faith that my computer was still working - it was only because I knew cygwin was so valuable to me that I persevered. In a first time try I might well have given up. (The upside of this is I can try and see if this latex install copes on a file someone sent me where my ubuntu one failed!) I notice the following lines near the top of the log files: 2013/02/05 13:27:23 Adding required dependency texlive: Selecting version 20120628-1 for installation. 2013/02/05 13:27:23 Adding required dependency texlive-collection-basic: Selecting version 20120628-2 for installation. 2013/02/05 13:27:23 Adding required dependency texlive-collection-documentation-base: Selecting version 20120628-1 for installation. 2013/02/05 13:27:23 Adding required dependency texlive-collection-fontsextra: Selecting version 20120628-1 for installation. 2013/02/05 13:27:23 Adding required dependency texlive-collection-fontsrecommended: Selecting version 20120628-1 for installation. 2013/02/05 13:27:23 Adding required dependency texlive-collection-fontutils: Selecting version 20120628-1 for installation. 2013/02/05 13:27:23 Adding required dependency texlive-collection-genericrecommended: Selecting version 20120628-1 for installation. 2013/02/05 13:27:23 Adding required dependency texlive-collection-htmlxml: Selecting version 20120628-1 for installation. 2013/02/05 13:27:23 Adding required dependency texlive-collection-latex: Selecting version 20120628-1 for installation. 2013/02/05 13:27:23 Adding required dependency texlive-collection-latexextra: Selecting version 20120628-1 for installation. 2013/02/05 13:27:23 Adding required dependency texlive-collection-latexrecommended: Selecting version 20120628-1 for installation. 2013/02/05 13:27:23 Adding required dependency texlive-collection-pictures: Selecting version 20120628-1 for installation. 2013/02/05 13:27:23 Adding required dependency texlive-collection-science: Selecting version 20120628-1 for installation. 2013/02/05 13:27:23 Adding required dependency texlive-collection-texinfo: Selecting version 20120628-1 for installation. I don't know if that indicates extra dependencies beyond the default, and if so I wonder what triggered them. I can send you the log files if you suggest where best to send them. Cheers Jeremy -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple -- View this message in context: http://cygwin.1069669.n5.nabble.com/Setup-2-774-texlive-postinstall-takes-10-hours-resending-due-to-cygwin-bounce-tp92260p95923.html Sent from the Cygwin list mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
