>> A list of those would be useful unless access to your system is available?
Thank you Brian. For info my very reduced but entirely adequate Cygwin installation (to my purposes) is driven by setup-x86_64 -P ImageMagick,R,autoconf,automake,bash-completion,bc,binutils,bison,byacc, coreutils,cpio,csih,cygutils,cygutils-extra,diffutils,dos2unix,e2fsprogs,fdupes,file, findutils,flex, gcc,gcc-core,gcc-g++,gnuplot-X11,gv,hexedit,joe,libRmath-devel,libX11-devel, libheif-devel,libheif-tool,libncurses-devel,libreadline-devel,libsqlite3-devel,libusb-devel, lua,lua-devel,make,mintty,mkisofs,moreutils,mysql,nano,ncurses,patchutils,python,sqlite3, tcl-tix,tcl-tk-devel,texlive-collection-latex,tree,util-linux,xinit,xorg-x11-fonts-dpi75, xorg-x11-fonts-dpi100,xpdf (sorry for the length) (and some of these are probably carried by Base or setup-defined dependencies) and as a consequence my 12 persistent updates in /etc/postinstall/ are zp_hicolor-icon-theme.sh zp_fontconfig_dtd.dash zp_adwaita-icon-theme.sh 0p_000_autorebase.dash zp_glib2.0.sh zp_desktop-file-utils.sh zp_fontconfig_cache_1.sh zp_shared-mime-info.sh zp_man-db-update-index.dash 0p_texlive_prep.dash zp_texlive_finish.dash 0p_update-info-dir.dash The requirements adwaita and texlive are the most time-consuming (and perplexing!). Fergus -- Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: https://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: https://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: https://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple