On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 12:52:48PM +0100, Andy Koppe wrote: >#On 26 July 2010 10:32, Andrey Repin wrote: >> Greetings, Andy Koppe! >>> 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. >> >> Strange principle. > >It's the "Principle of Least Surprise".
You can't argue that point if it would obviously surprise Andrey. It would surprise me too given that it would be a profound departure from previous behavior regardless of whether previous behavior was "right" or "wrong". And, just imagine the mailing list confusion: "Did you update to the latest version of the bushwa package?" "Yes! I ran setup.exe seven times so it must be updated! Stop being so brusque and unhelpful!" If we wanted to do something like this I think it would have to be a separate dialog where the user makes a decision about what they want. Either that or a list of packages to update would always be presented so that people wouldn't be surprised. cgf -- 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
