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Date:	Wed, 02 May 2001 09:42:17 -0400
From:	Earnie Boyd <earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com>
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To:	Richard Stanton <stanton AT haas DOT berkeley DOT edu>
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Subject:	Re: Setup suggestion
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Richard Stanton wrote:
> 
> A suggestion for setup.exe - 

Hmm... A suggestion to you would be for you to supply a patch to setup
so that it would

> rather than having to tell it to skip, say,
> ghostscript every time I run the program to upgrade any part of the cygwin
> distribution, why not add a setting which means something like "skip this
> package until further notice" that is remembered by setup.exe on future
> runs.
> 

and that it would.

> One simple solution, that wouldn't actually require any new choices, and
> that would also allow me to choose not to upgrade from version 2.32 to 2.33
> of some package without constantly saying so, but offer an upgrade to v.
> 2.34, would simply be to remember all my choices from a given run of setup,
> and only go back to defaults when a new version of any package appears.
> 

Earnie.

P.S.: Send your patches for consideration to cygwin-patches.  Also, see
http://cygwin.com/contrib.html for more information on how to help out.

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