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From: | "Robert Collins" <robert DOT collins AT itdomain DOT com DOT au> |
To: | "Dylan Cuthbert" <dylan AT q-games DOT com>, <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com> |
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Subject: | Re: RCS 5.7 (?) + setup.exe advice |
Date: | Thu, 14 Feb 2002 09:16:28 +1100 |
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=== ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dylan Cuthbert" <dylan AT q-games DOT com> To: <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com> Sent: Wednesday, February 13, 2002 5:00 PM Subject: Re: RCS 5.7 (?) + setup.exe advice > Ah, I get it now, I had a full installation of an older version of cygwin > and of course when I ran the setup program to update it doesn't > automatically tell you about new packages, one of which was rcs. It isn't > obvious to the average user (ie. me) to have to step through the rather > large package list looking for "skip"s to click through to install - I had > already done that once and that was one time too many. Hence the > confusion... > > A "show new packages" and a "show un-installed packages" addition to > setup.exe might be a good (and simple/ie. easy to program) addition to the > user-interface and probably solve the flurry of this kind of e-mail that > gets sent every day. If I had enough time I'd do it however I just don't > unfortunately so all I can do is lay my hope in some kind soul out there... Sure. Feel free to code them, both (IIRC) are already in the wishlist. Rob -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
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