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 20:30:39 -0800 MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: Re[2]: setup testers wanted Reply-to: Paul Garceau Message-ID: <3BE1B0EF.20266.797ED@localhost> In-reply-to: <1004675237.5558.80.camel@lifelesswks> References: <3BE1ACA4.31295.165BFA4@localhost> 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 15:27, the Illustrious Robert Collins wrote: > On Fri, 2001-11-02 at 15:12, Paul G. wrote: > > > 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. > > > That is the behaviour of skip. It's also the behaviour of keep - > strangely enough :}. > > The semantics from cgf are correct, but to the enduser the system > behaviour is the same. Ok. Thanks for the clarification. Paul G. > > Systems Software Developer NewDawn Productions http://www.teleport.com/~pgarceau/newdawn/ -- 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/