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Re: a final (?) feature request for setup
- From: "Max Bowsher" <maxb at ukf dot net>
- To: "Kris Thielemans" <kris dot thielemans at csc dot mrc dot ac dot uk>,<cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Fri, 29 Nov 2002 17:36:10 -0000
- Subject: Re: a final (?) feature request for setup
- References: <NBBBKKHEOHOEPNCALMIGIEKODIAA.kris.thielemans@ic.ac.uk>
Kris Thielemans <kris.thielemans@csc.mrc.ac.uk> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'd really like that the end-box with 'create icon on desk top' and
> 'add icon to start menu' has the check boxes not ticked when a
> previous installation is detected. (or at least have 'create icon on
> desk top' not checked all the time).
> Or maybe I can do that with the command line options, but it's so
> easy to click on the cygwin page...
Oh yes. I submitted a kludge ages back, but it was too kludgy to make it
into CVS.
Unfortunately, to do this not kludgily requires a decent options-persistence
mechanism - which is on the cards, but not here yet.
> By the way, any particular reason why setup is not in the bash path?
Because setup does not install itself.
The user downloads it and puts it where they want.
Max.