On Fri, Oct 8, 2010 at 12:10 PM, Thomas Wolff wrote: > Am 08.10.2010 04:50, schrieb Mark Geisert: >> For a while now the X components have been unbundled and can be installed >> separately, mostly. > > I wonder why they were unbundled. It has been suggested here before that it > would be useful to bundle the typical tiny X tools with the default X > installation, just to avoid such trouble.
Because not everybody has the same needs. Before the unbundling, I had to install the entirety of X just to be able to run makedepend; several megabytes of unused stuff just for a single, 23k executable. -- GCS a+ e++ d- C++ ULS$ L+$ !E- W++ P+++$ L w++$ tv+ b++ DI D++ 5++ Life is complex, with real and imaginary parts. "Ok, it boots. Which means it must be bug-free and perfect. " -- Linus Torvalds "People disagree with me. I just ignore them." -- Linus Torvalds -- 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
