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Re: Setup suggestion
- To: Richard Stanton <stanton at haas dot berkeley dot edu>
- Subject: Re: Setup suggestion
- From: Earnie Boyd <earnie_boyd at yahoo dot com>
- Date: Wed, 02 May 2001 09:42:17 -0400
- CC: Cygwin Users <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- References: <LNBBKMIKMNGEJNEJICPHIEKEFAAA.stanton@haas.berkeley.edu>
- Reply-To: Cygwin Users <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
Richard Stanton wrote:
>
> A suggestion for setup.exe -
Hmm... A suggestion to you would be for you to supply a patch to setup
so that it would
> rather than having to tell it to skip, say,
> ghostscript every time I run the program to upgrade any part of the cygwin
> distribution, why not add a setting which means something like "skip this
> package until further notice" that is remembered by setup.exe on future
> runs.
>
and that it would.
> One simple solution, that wouldn't actually require any new choices, and
> that would also allow me to choose not to upgrade from version 2.32 to 2.33
> of some package without constantly saying so, but offer an upgrade to v.
> 2.34, would simply be to remember all my choices from a given run of setup,
> and only go back to defaults when a new version of any package appears.
>
Earnie.
P.S.: Send your patches for consideration to cygwin-patches. Also, see
http://cygwin.com/contrib.html for more information on how to help out.
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