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Re: Questions about Cygwin's setup...
> Hmmm. The cygwin mailer does some strange things with Reply-to. Your
> message has a Reply-to of "Earnie Boyd <cygwin@cygwin.com>". Is this
> intentional?
Users do this to avoid getting personal replies. It keeps the
topic in the forum.
> With respect to my message, it should be obvious that I'm trying to
> setup a "minimum" install of Cygwin.
You should be able to do this. It's rare that the mount table format
and shortcuts (the only machine-specific parts) change.
> * Why not make setup a package (say "cygwinsetup") like all the rest so that
> it could potentially update itself?
We recommend you run setup from the cygwin home page. It's not big.
Setup can detect when a new version is available, and you'd want that
new version *before* you run setup, not after. Plus, it's not trivial
to coordinate downloading and installing a new version of the program
you're currently running, then restarting it and remembering your
choices (assuming the questions haven't changed).
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