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Date: Mon, 26 Jul 2004 11:37:27 -0400
From: Christopher Faylor <cgf-no-personal-reply-please AT cygwin DOT com>
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Subject: Re: Selecting packages in setup
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On Mon, Jul 26, 2004 at 09:29:58AM +0300, Jani tiainen wrote:
>Christopher Faylor wrote:
>>On Sun, Jul 25, 2004 at 06:04:18PM +0300, Jani tiainen wrote:
>>
>>>Recently I wanted to install Cygnome2 packages, and noticed that you 
>>>can't install them simultaenously with rest of Cygwin - problem is that 
>>>you can't really tell from packages which comes from which server - in 
>>>my case there was GTK2 packages from Cygwin distribution that were 
>>>installed instead wanted Cygnome2 packages - and nothing really worked.
>>
>>This is the Cygwin project.  There is only one source for packages.  If
>>other projects are using setup.exe and providing their own packages,
>>that's great but please don't ask us to try to support other people's
>>efforts.
>
>Yes I know.

...

>Another issue is that why setup wants always to upgrade latest version?

setup.exe has a TODO and a wish list.  I suggest that you check it out:

http://sources.redhat.com/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/setup/README?rev=2&cvsroot=cygwin-apps

>>Maybe either you or the Cygnome2 project should provide patches to
>>setup to implement your ideas.  This really isn't an issue for us but
>>we'll gladly consider changes to setup.exe.
>
>I'll see what I can do about it, but not this time since I know how to
>deal with it and it's not such a big issue.

Hmm.

cgf

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