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RE: Setup as recommended reading
- From: "Robert Collins" <robert dot collins at itdomain dot com dot au>
- To: "Brian Gallew" <geek at burri dot to>
- Cc: <jim dot george at blueyonder dot co dot uk>,<cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Sun, 26 May 2002 22:20:17 +1000
- Subject: RE: Setup as recommended reading
That's a workaround that requires ~ the same effort as storing all the
package data.
Rob
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Brian Gallew [mailto:geek@burri.to]
> Sent: Sunday, May 26, 2002 10:02 PM
> To: Robert Collins
> Cc: jim.george@blueyonder.co.uk; cygwin@cygwin.com
> Subject: RE: Setup as recommended reading
>
>
> Robert Collins said:
> > There is an implicit conflict there with setup, because
> setup doesn't
> > know what was available before - it only knows version for what is
> > installed. That will change in the future.
>
> How about this: Allow packages to be marked "never install"?
> Then setup can display all of the udpated or new packages,
> yet give the user an easy way to control what (s)he has to look at?
>
>
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