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From: "Schaible, Jorg" <Joerg DOT Schaible AT gft DOT com>
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: RE: cygwin installer
Date: Thu, 10 May 2001 13:49:32 +0200
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Hi DJ,

>This came up recently.  It would be nice if setup "remembered" that
>you chose not to install package A, and default to not installing
>package A next time too.  It currently does not.  I don't think an
>extra button is required in that case.
>
>I think if setup does this, the only case left you're talking about is
>the case where a new package shows up on the mirrors.  I think setup
>should tell you that such a package is available by default.  Even if
>it defaulted to installing it, you'd only have to disable it once,
>ever.

I would not like this behaviour too much. Depending on my current connection
speed, package size for the new or updated package and the current time
(that influences the amount of money to pay for the connection time) I
sometimes chose to download such a package just not *now*.

Greetings,
Jorg

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