On 25 July 2010 03:54, Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Sat, Jul 24, 2010 at 07:10:08PM -0500, Marshall Abrams wrote: >>One of the beautiful things about Cygwin's setup.exe is that when--perhaps >>in the middle of trying to get something done before a deadline--I realize >>that a Cygwin package I didn't think I'd need would help. If it hasn't been >>*too* long since I last installed, I go and mark the package to install, >>carefully make sure that I mark all other new packages as "keep", and hit >>next. > > *Although* you should be able to set everything to "keep" and just > update the one package that you want
... by simply clicking on the Keep button near the top of the package selection screen. This makes me wonder whether Keep shouldn't be the default, on the principle that programs shouldn't do anything unless the user asks for it. Also, if you're trying to stick with a proven install, forgetting to click Keep is much worse then if you're trying to stay up-to-date yet you forget to change from Keep to Curr. In the first case, you need to restore a backup assuming you have one, whereas in the second you just need to run setup again. Yet of course the argument for having Curr as the default is that we want to encourage users to update to the latest versions as we can't support a myriad of different combinations of old package versions. Hmm. How about leaving the default as is but remembering the state of Keep/Curr/Prev/Exp across setup.exe invocations? Would a patch for that be welcome? Andy -- 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
