On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 04:15:19PM +0100, Andy Koppe wrote: >On 26 July 2010 15:29, Christopher Faylor wrote: >> On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 12:52:48PM +0100, Andy Koppe wrote: >> 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. > >Agreed, but of course that'd need substantial design and >implementation work, so realistically it isn't gonna happen.
AFAIK, the latter, where a list of what's being updated is shown isn't a substantial redesign. >Okay, detour over. > >Now what about my actual proposal, which was to save the >Keep/Curr/Prev/Exp setting across setup.exe invocations? I think making it sticky would lead to the confusion that I previously mentioned so I'm not in favor of it. However, I don't feel so strongly that I'd actually veto the change if others think it is important. 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
