On Wed, Oct 28, 2015 at 12:05:06AM -0600, Warren Young wrote: > On Oct 27, 2015, at 7:21 AM, Nellis, Kenneth wrote: > > > > From: Warren Young > >> > >> On Oct 25, 2015, at 3:11 PM, t s wrote: > >>> > >>> Q: How do I install everything? > >>> A: You do not want to do this! > >> > >> I explain this in more detail here: > >> > >> http://stackoverflow.com/a/21233990 > > > > For the hell of it I decided to check out this hidden feature. > > What I got was two dialog boxes popping up talking about > > Cygwin limitations, something about "this port of Avahi", > > references to Apple's "Bounjour mDNSResponder" service, > > and a link to http://support.apple.com/kb/DL999. > > > > What's up with that? > > That???s actually a great illustration of the point I tried to make. > > You just asked setup.exe to install a whole bunch of software you do not > actually need, so when it starts asking you questions about what you want done > with this software, you are lost, because you don???t even know what the > software *is*, much less how to use it. > > So don???t do that. :) > As it happens, I also saw that message last night. I only wanted to *reinstall* everything I had installed previously, owing to AVG antivirus having deleted I don't know what.
I configured AVG to never look at C:\cygwin64 in future but was that the best I could have done? Cheers ... Duncan. -- 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
