[feature-request] Installation Tool: Create profiles as meaningful collection of packages

[Andrew Volkov <Andrew dot Volkov at transas dot com>]

Hi all,

Absolutelly agree with Johannes

How about to converting setup.exe in dpkg (or rpm) like program, and
setup.ini in dpkg/rpm format?

Andrey

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Johannes Brodwall [mailto:johannes@brodwall.com]
> Sent: Friday, October 26, 2001 1:25 PM
> To: cygwin@cygwin.com
> Subject: [feature-request] Installation Tool: Create profiles 
> as meaningful collection of packages
> 
> 
> Hi,
> I have found that personally, the setup.exe installation is not very
> convenient.  With 80+ packages, ranging from critical (ash), to useful
> (fileutils) to unusable without external help (postgresql - requires
> cygipc), I always end up installing all the packages available for
> simplicity.  I currently have a very high-speed internet 
> connection and a
> large hard drive, but this is not always the case.
> 
> What would be very useful would be to have a set of profiles 
> to select from.
> Some examples of profiles could be "minimal installation", 
> "development
> platform", and "full".  In addition to answering the question 
> "will cygwin
> not work if I don't install this", it will make it more 
> practical to select
> a partial installation, something that currently requires a 
> lot of clicking
> around.  Is anything like this planned?
> 
> The motivation for me asking this question might be somewhat 
> interesting.
> My dad, a lawyer, wants to understand better the inner workings of
> computers.  I decided that teaching him C would be a good 
> place to start.
> However, both his computer and connection are very low-end, 
> so downloading
> all of cygwin is not an optimal way of getting gcc.  I really want to
> introduce the concept of open-source to him as much as 
> possible as well,
> because I believe it is important that people working with 
> law understand
> the issues involved better.
> 
> I could not find any message addressing this in the archives.
> 
> Sincerely,
> ~Johannes
> 
> 
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