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". >> Setup is intended to install/update Cygwin installation. >> Of course it offer to update whatever is available for update. >> Why shouldn't it? > Yes, of course it should offer them, the issue is that it > clandestinely sticks them into users' shopping trolleys and then makes > them pay for it. At least some users do get surprised by setup.exe > pre-selecting updates without making that obvious, such that the first > they know about it is when large packages they didn't pick start > downloading. (Setup.exe's behaviour is of course documented, alas, > manuals don't usually get read until there are problems, if at all.) > Having said that, I do think that encouraging users to update to the > latest versions is a good thing, but it would be nice to do it less > sneakily. I don't know how though. > Remembering the Keep/Curr/Prev/Exp setting across setup.exe > invocations would just make it easier for users like the OP to opt out > of updates. The summary page with expected download size listed wouldn't be bad addition, I agree. -- WBR, Andrey Repin (anrdae...@freemail.ru) 26.07.2010, <23:20> Sorry for my terrible english... -- 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
