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Re: Welcoming Brian Dessent as setup maintainer
Warren Young wrote:
To be effective, the option would have to be enabled by default, with
the ability to turn it off.
I've thought of a better way to handle this: versioned setup hints. The
first time you install Cygwin, you have to at least skip past all of the
hints explicitly. When you upgrade a package, the hint probably won't
have changed, so setup.exe won't show it to you again. But if there is
a change, setup.exe does show the hint again.
A package maintainer would only change the hint when some critical thing
happens. To reuse the OpenSSH example, any package change that requires
you to re-run ssh-host-config would require a change to the setup hint.