On Wed, 29 Jan 2003, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > On Wed, 29 Jan 2003, Ronald Landheer-Cieslak wrote: > > On Wed, 29 Jan 2003, Weiqi Gao wrote: > > > I'm one of those who fires up the setup.exe program everyday and > > > download whatever that's updated since yesterday. > > > > > > I find myself going to the "Full" view and scroll from top to bottom > > > looking for packages marked "skip" and click on it to make setup > > > download the package. > > > > > > The list in the "Full" view is quite long now. I'm just wondering if it > > > is possible to create another view called "Skipped" and show all the > > > packages that's marked skipped so that I can have a chance to click on > > > them to make setup download the packages, in a much shorter list. > > > > > > Maybe there is a better way of doing this already that I'm not aware of. > > > In that case I would like to hear that too. > > Try setting "All" to "Install" - I think that'll do what you want. > > > > Ciao, > > rlc > Not quite. Setting "All" to "Install" will also upgrade those packages > already on the system, whereas the "Skipped" view would only show > uninstalled packages. Not to downplay your suggestion, Ronald - it may do > exactly what Weiqi Gao wanted, I'm just setting the record straight here. I *thought* so too until I tried :) I ran setup, set "All" to Install and was kinda surprised (but pleasently so) when I saw the "keep"s remain "keep"s and the "skip"s become "install"s Note that I didn't say he should click all the way to reinstall :)
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