Re: wise way to install cygwin packages

2009-10-08 Thread Ralph Hempel
Steven Woody wrote: so, to uninstall 1 package, what you did is actually download the other 99 packages? No, I have a local download directory that I keep current. To be precise, I installed the other packages from my local download directory. No additional internet bandwidth was harmed duri

Re: wise way to install cygwin packages

2009-10-08 Thread Steven Woody
On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 6:35 AM, Ralph Hempel wrote: > Christopher Faylor wrote: > >> It's on my todo list to get rid of the GUI pop-up from setup.exe when >> -P is used.  I know that won't make it like rpm/yum/apt/dpkg/emerge. > > Not to put too fine a point on it but ... if I ever want to uninsta

Re: wise way to install cygwin packages

2009-10-08 Thread Ralph Hempel
Christopher Faylor wrote: It's on my todo list to get rid of the GUI pop-up from setup.exe when -P is used. I know that won't make it like rpm/yum/apt/dpkg/emerge. Not to put too fine a point on it but ... if I ever want to uninstall a package (rarely) here's what I do: 1. Rename my current

Re: wise way to install cygwin packages

2009-10-08 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 10/08/2009 01:13 PM, Steven Woody wrote: But I think even not involve in any new design or a new command line option, the current GUI still have a place to improve. To me, the big problem is, when I can not change a package's state directly into 'uninstall' without going through other states

Re: wise way to install cygwin packages

2009-10-08 Thread Steven Woody
On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 9:46 PM, Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Thu, Oct 08, 2009 at 06:40:34AM -0400, Ken Jackson wrote: >>On Thu, 08 Oct 2009 00:49:45 -0400 >>"Larry Hall (Cygwin)" wrote: >> >>> On 10/08/2009 12:25 AM, Ken Jackson wrote: >>> > It would be great to have a command-line package man

Re: wise way to install cygwin packages

2009-10-08 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Oct 08, 2009 at 06:40:34AM -0400, Ken Jackson wrote: >On Thu, 08 Oct 2009 00:49:45 -0400 >"Larry Hall (Cygwin)" wrote: > >> On 10/08/2009 12:25 AM, Ken Jackson wrote: >> > It would be great to have a command-line package management tool. >> > For example, if yum were ported to Cygwin, for

Re: wise way to install cygwin packages

2009-10-08 Thread Ralph Hempel
Ken Jackson wrote: I agree. And even for simple operations I find it a bother to have to start up a gui to install a package or check for updates. It would be great to have a command-line package management tool. For example, if yum were ported to Cygwin, for the case you cite, you could do th

Re: wise way to install cygwin packages

2009-10-08 Thread Steven Woody
On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 6:40 PM, Ken Jackson wrote: > On Thu, 08 Oct 2009 00:49:45 -0400 > "Larry Hall (Cygwin)" wrote: > >> On 10/08/2009 12:25 AM, Ken Jackson wrote: >> > It would be great to have a command-line package management tool. >> > For example, if yum were ported to Cygwin, for the cas

Re: wise way to install cygwin packages

2009-10-08 Thread Ken Jackson
On Thu, 08 Oct 2009 00:49:45 -0400 "Larry Hall (Cygwin)" wrote: > On 10/08/2009 12:25 AM, Ken Jackson wrote: > > It would be great to have a command-line package management tool. > > For example, if yum were ported to Cygwin, for the case you cite, > > you could do this: > > > > $ yum remove PA P

Re: wise way to install cygwin packages

2009-10-07 Thread Robert Pendell
On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 12:49 AM, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: > On 10/08/2009 12:25 AM, Ken Jackson wrote: >> >> On Wed, 7 Oct 2009 20:41:53 +0800 >> Steven Woody wrote: >>> >>> 3. So, after I do some other clicks to really deselect the PB, I have >>> to go back to deselect PA again! >> >> ... >>> >>

Re: wise way to install cygwin packages

2009-10-07 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 10/08/2009 12:25 AM, Ken Jackson wrote: On Wed, 7 Oct 2009 20:41:53 +0800 Steven Woody wrote: 3. So, after I do some other clicks to really deselect the PB, I have to go back to deselect PA again! ... This make the operation very very hard to perform. I agree. And even for simple operati

Re: wise way to install cygwin packages

2009-10-07 Thread Ken Jackson
On Wed, 7 Oct 2009 20:41:53 +0800 Steven Woody wrote: > 3. So, after I do some other clicks to really deselect the PB, I have > to go back to deselect PA again! ... > This make the operation very very hard to perform. I agree. And even for simple operations I find it a bother to have to start up

wise way to install cygwin packages

2009-10-07 Thread Steven Woody
Hi, I did not think this is a problem since in the past when I need to install cygwin, I always select all the packages in the installer (click the tree icon, make it switch from 'default' to 'install'). But now I plan not to install some packages when I do a fresh installation. So, I again, firs