Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sources.redhat.com Delivered-To: fixup-cygwin@cygwin.com@fixme From: "Paul G." Organization: New Dawn Productions To: cygwin@cygwin.com Date: Thu, 1 Nov 2001 20:12:20 -0800 MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: Re[2]: setup testers wanted Reply-to: Paul Garceau Message-ID: <3BE1ACA4.31295.165BFA4@localhost> In-reply-to: <1004673424.5367.66.camel@lifelesswks> References: <20011101205025.A6760@redhat.com> X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v4.0, beta 40) Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-description: Mail message body On 2 Nov 2001 at 14:57, the Illustrious Robert Collins wrote: > On Fri, 2001-11-02 at 12:50, Christopher Faylor wrote: > > On Fri, Nov 02, 2001 at 12:09:34PM +1100, Robert Collins wrote: > > >How about we get rid of either 'skip' or 'keep' - they are the same > > >AFAIK. > > > > We had this discussion in cygwin-developers. They are subtly > > different. One implies that the package exists on disk and you'll be > > keeping it. The other implies that you will not be installing the > > package. > > Sure, but will users grok this? Nope. Not the naive newbie, that is for sure. Especially considering the subtlties weren't able to be easily addressed when cgf replied. > > Hmm, maybe we shouldn't show skip for non installed packages? Well, I have always assumed (since setup first existed) that when I select "skip", I am saying, "don't do anything with that particular package, just leave it exactly as it is on my hard drive." This is especially critical if I have been working with cygwin source code for some reason or another and do not want some portion of my source code disturbed. Paul G. > > Rob > > > -- > Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple > Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html > Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html > FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ > > -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/