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Date: | Sat, 6 Apr 2002 01:20:12 -0500 |
From: | Christopher Faylor <cgf AT redhat DOT com> |
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Subject: | Re: Should setup suggests to downgrade? [WAS: Lillypond for cygwin] |
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On Sat, Apr 06, 2002 at 10:21:57AM +1000, Robert Collins wrote: >> -----Original Message----- >> From: David A. Cobb [mailto:superbiskit AT cox DOT net] >> Sent: Friday, April 05, 2002 1:59 AM > >> > TODO >> > [..] >>>* Don't downgrade if the curr version is <= installed? >>> >>>Btw, this should apply to test too, I think. >>> >>I agree. It's annoying at best to install a group of test packages and >>then, the next time I run setup, if I don't watch carefully they would >>revert to the current. > >See the cygwin-apps thread started by cgf, about seeing the light. It >would solve this problem cleanly and permanently. I'm not sure how. If you're talking about my suggestion, if you switched to a test view and installed things, the next time you ran setup you'd still default to current so, I presume that setup would still suggest a downgrade. setup should probably *never* suggest either going backwards or uninstalling. cgf
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