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Re: more and base
- From: Charles Wilson <cwilson at ece dot gatech dot edu>
- To: Robert Collins <robert dot collins at itdomain dot com dot au>
- Cc: Jim <jbuckeyne at greater dot net>,Cygwin-Apps <cygwin-apps at sources dot redhat dot com>
- Date: Fri, 29 Mar 2002 11:03:53 -0500
- Subject: Re: more and base
- References: <FC169E059D1A0442A04C40F86D9BA76008ABEB@itdomain003.itdomain.net.au>
Robert Collins wrote:
>>> Can we remove more from base?
>>>
>> More is what? 3k? I'd love to have had it in the base install when
>> I installed my cygwin -
>>
>
> I support having a pager in the default install (which !=
> base!!!!!!!)
Base: cygwin is non-functional and completely broken(*) unless each and
every package in Base is installed.
'more' is not a requirement for a functioning cygwin installation.
Therefore it shouldn't go in Base. (Yes, there are a few other packages
in Base that probably don't belong there, but that's an issue for
another day).
Now, a Base-only cygwin installation may be *useless* in the sense that
"sure, cygwin works -- but I can't do anything useful with it except mv
files around, unless X Y and Z packages, which are not in Base, are
installed." But useless is not the same as non-functional.
(*) Yes, I know it's possible to configure certain specialized tasks
with only (say) cygwin, sshd, and login (use c:\winnt\cmd.exe as the
shell) -- but that's beyond the scope of the "normal" cygwin installation.
>
>> I want the basic development environment too - since what use is
>> the environment without gcc?
>>
>
> Lots. Squid. Apache. SSH. CVS. None of these require gcc.
Web development. perl programming. Python programming. Document
creation (tex/xfig).
--Chuck