Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Message-ID: <3CF0D31D.6060107@mip.sdu.dk> Date: Sun, 26 May 2002 14:20:45 +0200 From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Ren=E9_M=F8ller_Fonseca?= Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Organization: The Maersk Institute, University of Southern Denmark User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.0rc3) Gecko/20020523 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Setup as recommended reading References: <3710.128.2.120.244.1022414514.squirrel@mail.burri.to> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Virus-Scanned: by AMaViS perl-11 The RPM package application Gnome RPM (gnorpm) has a filter selection box in the install dialog with the following possibilities: All packages All but installed packages Only uninstalled packages Only newer packages Uninstalled or newer packages Very convenient, I think. René Brian Gallew wrote: > Robert Collins said: > >>There is an implicit conflict there with setup, because setup >>doesn't know what was available before - it only knows version for >>what is installed. That will change in the future. > > > How about this: Allow packages to be marked "never install"? Then > setup can display all of the udpated or new packages, yet give the > user an easy way to control what (s)he has to look at? > > > -- > 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/ > -- B.Sc. in Computer Systems Engineering The Maersk Mc-Kinney Moller Institute for Production Technology University of Southern Denmark http://www.mip.sdu.dk/~fonseca -- 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/