Thorsten Kampe wrote: > I don't know these reasons for all those Base packages. But the > reasons are in my opinion not trivial. Omitting tar for example hasn't > simply the effect "so you cannot use tar" but "so you cannot install > via setup.exe, because the installation packages are tarred (and > bzipped)"[1] > > [1] This is an assumption, because I don't think setup.exe has builtin > "tar.bz2" support
You obviously weren't thinking when you wrote this. Of *course* setup handles "tar.bz2" files all by itself. How else is it going to do a clean install of Cygwin!!! Max. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
