Adding packages (was: mkfs.jffs2 support in CYGWIN)

Thu Aug 27 20:48:00 GMT 2009

Andy Koppe wrote:
>> How to install is here:
>> http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/setup-net.html
>> I don't think it's terribly obvious that you simply need to run
> setup.exe again to add more packages after initial installation. This
> is not a common thing to do with other installers, and with some
> installers this might even mess things up, so people might be wary of
> doing this.

 Ah. Well. It's not a common thing to do with *Windows* installers, but on
Linux - which is what Cygwin aims to emulate - it's absolutely the standard
practice to use a single central package management program that updates your
whole system for you.
> So to help matters, perhaps setup.exe could be installed as part of
> Cygwin, and a suitably named link to it added to the start menu? Even
> better if that link would take it directly to the package selection
> screen.

 That's not a bad idea at all. Would make Cygwin even more Linux-like!
 cheers,
 DaveK
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