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Keeping base, adding standard.
- From: David Starks-Browning <starksb at ebi dot ac dot uk>
- To: cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com
- Date: Sat, 23 Mar 2002 13:09:16 +0000
- Subject: Keeping base, adding standard.
- References: <20020322211017.GA28702@redhat.com>
On Friday 22 Mar 02, Christopher Faylor writes:
> Now that we have clickable categories, I think we should consider not
> making "Base" the default installation, defaulting to something like
> "Standard" instead.
>
> Standard would include things like:
>
> base +
> bzip2
> bash
> clear
> tcsh
> less
> vim
> telnet
> ssh
> cygrunsrv
> mutt
> perl?
> python?
> shutdown?
> ssmtp
> unzip
> zip
>
> The rationale is that people can still select a minimal install with
> base but still choose a usable setup with Standard.
Those all look good but I would definitely exclude perl and python
from this list. They are both quite large.
David