Cygwin installing too much stuff

[Brandon J. Van Every]

Gary R. Van Sickle wrote:
>Brandon J. Van Every wrote:
>>
>>It is irritating because I'm on a dialup, and I just wanted 
>>to grab the small "zip" tool and keep going with my real 
>>work.  Instead I'm waiting waiting waiting waiting on piles 
>>of downloads that I'm too lazy to go in and figure out.
> 
> Well... since you're waiting anyway, couldn't you use that otherwise-wated
> time to "go in and figure [it] out"?  

When multitasking I prioritize throughput over latency.  I went and 
scrubbed steps for a few hours to keep the landlord happy.  All for a 
86K download: zip is tiny!  It just has the liability of being last in 
the alphabet.

> In this case, you lucked out, because
> I'm going to do it for you!

See there's a method in my madness.  :-)  It seems that I could solve 
these sorts of problems with the "partial" and "curr" views.  I did 
indeed have a partial TeTex download pending, and I actually did need it 
for what I was compiling.  I had just forgotten that I needed it, as I 
was interrupted in my work last week.

Thanks for all the help everyone.

-- 
Cheers,                     www.indiegamedesign.com
Brandon Van Every           Seattle, WA


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