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On 02/18/2014 08:26 PM, Andrey Repin wrote:
Greetings, Luke Kendall!It's great that Cygwin has so many packages. And setup.exe makes it easy to select the packages you want. But it seems quite difficult to also select all the corresponding source packages as well, simply because there are so many packages! In the worst case, where you want every package, and all the source packages too, surely you don't have to scroll and click 3,000-odd times in the UI to select them all? But I haven't found a way to do it through setup. Sorry if this is a dumb question. I have searched, but couldn't find an answer.This is a known deficiency of a Cygwin setup. However, how many source packages you ACTUALLY, REALLY need to download? -- WBR, Andrey Repin (anrdaemon@yandex.ru) 18.02.2014, <13:24> Sorry for my terrible english...
I imagine others have suggested that the UI for the missing functionality could be as simple as a checkbox to include source package for all packages selected.
We actually, really needed to download all the source packages, because we need to be able to check the licenses, and the licenses can often only be found by looking in the source packages.
We worked around the problem by rsync-ing the whole thing, in the end. Thanks for confirming that it wasn't a dumb question, Andrey! Regards, luke -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
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