Cumbersome waiting de- and re-installing KDE with every minor cha nge

[Ralf Habacker]

On Tuesday 01 June 2004 14:05, BERTIN Philippe wrote:
> 'Llo All,
>
> I can hardly imagine that no-one asked this before to the list, but I
> looked into the logs (maybe not using the correct terms ?), but found no
> answer to my problem. Hence I ask it here :
>
> After having installed KDE (and Qt), with every new, even minor change, it
> takes a whole time to deinstall, and later re-install the environment.
> After a while, it gets boaring to wait for the cygwin setup program to
> finish. Is there a (maybe/probably not so safe ?) workaround ?

This is a setup issue. When calling the setup again, select the keep state. 

Another possibility is to use the command line setup from 
http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/kde-cygwin/tools/cygsetup/

Ralf