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RE: Setup as recommended reading
- From: "Robert Collins" <robert dot collins at itdomain dot com dot au>
- To: <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Sun, 26 May 2002 22:45:52 +1000
- Subject: RE: Setup as recommended reading
That's fine. It still needs the list of all available pacakges which I documented setup as needing a long time ago, and referenced in both of my emails on this thread. Patches would be appreciated, but other than that I think we all agree it would be nice.
I'm bowing out of this thread at this point.
Rob
> -----Original Message-----
> From: René Møller Fonseca [mailto:fonseca@mip.sdu.dk]
> Sent: Sunday, May 26, 2002 10:21 PM
> To: cygwin@cygwin.com
> Subject: Re: Setup as recommended reading
>
>
> The RPM package application Gnome RPM (gnorpm) has a filter selection
> box in the install dialog with the following possibilities:
>
> All packages
> All but installed packages
> Only uninstalled packages
> Only newer packages
> Uninstalled or newer packages
>
> Very convenient, I think.
>
> René
>
> Brian Gallew wrote:
> > 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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