>>> You also proposed adding a feature it already has, a column telling you >>> whether a package is already installed or not. This tells me that you are >>> not >>> calmly and dispassionately observing what is in front of your eyes. >> It doesn't have a column dedicated for this purpose, that column is >> used also to instruct the installer what to do. > > You are looking at the wrong column. > > Look at the column immediately to its left. > > The one labelled "Current". > > The one that shows you the currently-installed version of the package, or > nothing if it is not currently installed. > > Perhaps you could get that two-year old you mentioned earlier to point it > out to you. Thanks, but it seems I already have.
> >> If that's the case, then why does it offer to save packages without >> installing - it obviously was intended as a way of downloading and >> installing later. > > Yes, exactly. It is a way of downloading, for later installation, the exact > same set of packages it would download and install at the same time if you ran > it in install-from-internet mode. > > Not some arbitrary different set of packages. You made that bit up. > >> The fact is that the obvious way it should work, > > You're just elevating your own mistaken assumptions to the status of > "obvious" truths. You need to get over yourself. Wow, you just can't help throwing insults around - well done, you're great at that at least. > > Still no log files, I see. It's almost as if you didn't want to demonstrate > that there is a bug or have it fixed. I promise you, if you've found a bug, I > will indeed write the code necessary to fix it, but you have to be able to > show it to me. Dave, thanks, but cygwin obviously doesn't want my input, and I don't want your help. Chris -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
