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Re: info: single install xfree86 + minimal cygwin?
Christopher Faylor wrote:
>
> The base cygwin install provides, er, a base cygwin install. That's the
> default for the Cygwin installation. There is currently no XFree86
> package in the cygwin installation at all.
>
They could create a custom install if they wanted. The Cygwin setup
program can download packages from any site. They would need to select
the packages for a minimal install, create a new setup.ini, and mirror
those packages on their download site.
>
> I would love for someone to post a proposal for inclusion of a XFree86
> package to the cygwin-apps mailing list using the guidelines at
> http://cygwin.com/setup.html but so far no one has been willing to do
> that.
>
The first step is to build Cygwin-style packages. The second step is to
create a local install directory with custom setup.ini and packages. The
third step is to get it included into the standard cygwin install.
I thought someone already did the packaging. One question is do we want
to separate it into multiple packages. Another is what to name the
packages; xfree86 or xoncygwin would be good choices. I think multiple
packages is a good idea. Mainly so the server executable can be updated
without updating the other files.
- Ian
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