Mail Archives: cygwin/2001/11/01/23:23:13
On Thu, Nov 01, 2001 at 08:12:20PM -0800, Paul G. wrote:
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>On 2 Nov 2001 at 14:57, the Illustrious Robert Collins wrote:
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>> On Fri, 2001-11-02 at 12:50, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>> > On Fri, Nov 02, 2001 at 12:09:34PM +1100, Robert Collins wrote:
>> > >How about we get rid of either 'skip' or 'keep' - they are the same
>> > >AFAIK.
>> >
>> > We had this discussion in cygwin-developers. They are subtly
>> > different. One implies that the package exists on disk and you'll be
>> > keeping it. The other implies that you will not be installing the
>> > package.
>>
>> Sure, but will users grok this?
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>Nope. Not the naive newbie, that is for sure. Especially considering
>the subtlties weren't able to be easily addressed when cgf replied.
No, but it shouldn't be particularly confusing either. I doubt that
anyone would be surprised to select either "keep" or "skip" and have
nothing happen.
I just think that keep and skip should not ever appear in the same
package selection. It's a bug if they do.
cgf
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