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Date:	Sat, 6 Apr 2002 01:20:12 -0500
From:	Christopher Faylor <cgf AT redhat DOT com>
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Subject:	Re: Should setup suggests to downgrade? [WAS: Lillypond for cygwin]
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On Sat, Apr 06, 2002 at 10:21:57AM +1000, Robert Collins wrote:
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: David A. Cobb [mailto:superbiskit AT cox DOT net] 
>> Sent: Friday, April 05, 2002 1:59 AM
>
>> >   TODO
>> >   [..]
>>>* Don't downgrade if the curr version is <= installed?
>>>
>>>Btw, this should apply to test too, I think.
>>>
>>I agree.  It's annoying at best to install a group of test packages and
>>then, the next time I run setup, if I don't watch carefully they would
>>revert to the current.
>
>See the cygwin-apps thread started by cgf, about seeing the light.  It
>would solve this problem cleanly and permanently.

I'm not sure how.  If you're talking about my suggestion, if you switched
to a test view and installed things, the next time you ran setup you'd
still default to current so, I presume that setup would still suggest a
downgrade.

setup should probably *never* suggest either going backwards or uninstalling.

cgf

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