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RE: Problem with setup (maybe a feature request)
- From: "Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E]" <BBuchbinder at niaid dot nih dot gov>
- To: "cygwin at cygwin dot com" <cygwin at cygwin dot com>, Rance Hall <ranceh at gmail dot com>
- Date: Tue, 5 Jan 2010 11:26:06 -0500
- Subject: RE: Problem with setup (maybe a feature request)
- References: <845c0f81001050713j4e7ea286x87203c672df39fb4@mail.gmail.com>
Rance Hall sent the following at Tuesday, January 05, 2010 10:13 AM
>
>I'm running cygwin 1.7.x and I've been pretty faithful with running
>setup again when updates are announced.
>
>I've noticed that setup remembers almost all the answers from the
>previous run, so if you are just doing an update you should be able to
>just "NEXT" through it.
>
>The very last page of the setup includes options of creating
>desktop/quicklaunch shortcuts.
>
>Because I run mintty I chose not to have the basic cygwin shell prompt
>on my desktop. Setup seems unable to remember what my choice was each
>time I run setup.
>
>I think this is undesired behavior. If you are running a desktop icon
>the setup process shouldn't make a second one.
>
>I couldn't find a place where this data might be stored so, my
>conclusion was either its not stored at all, or I'm just plain wrong.
>
>On the chance I'm right: I'd like to see the defaults change to "OFF"
>unless its a "first" install and there is no sub structure (ie no /etc,
>/var, /bin, .....)
>
>On the chance I'm wrong and the data in question is stored, can setup
>respect previous entries?
You can run setup wuith the -n option.
See http://cygwin.com/faq/faq-nochunks.html#faq.setup.cli
- Barry
Disclaimer: Statements made herein are not made on behalf of NIAID.
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