Newbie - ? get IDLE going on cygwin

[Thorsten Kampe]

* David J. Braden (2006-09-14 04:58 +0100)
> Jason Tishler wrote:
>> Dave,
>> 
>> On Wed, Sep 13, 2006 at 03:33:01PM +0000, David J. Braden wrote:
>>> I can now confirm that, yes, IDLE pops up w/o menus under cygwin.
>> 
>> You should be able to workaround this problem by executing idle with the
>> "-n" option:
>> 
>>     $ idle -n
> 
> Worked great. This "exercise" has also raised my comfort level with the 
> whole endeavor. To get rebaseall going, I was told to install the 
> *entire* cygwin package.

Sorry, but that's nonsense. The only things you need for rebase are
rebase and ash. You shouldn't install everything if you plan to use
just a fraction...