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Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: setup (2.923)
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On 21/11/2022 16:23, Adam Dinwoodie wrote:
> On Mon, 21 Nov 2022 at 12:46, Jon Turney wrote:
>> - Add view modes "Removable" and "Unneeded" (thanks to Christian Franke)
>>
>> -- "Removable" shows installed packages that were selected, but can now
>> be safely removed, as no installed package depends on them
>> -- "Unneeded" shows packages which were automatically installed, but can
>> now be safely removed, as no installed depends on them
> 
> Thank you, everyone involved in this! I'd been lamenting cygcheck-dep
> not getting updated for the new dependency declaration methods, but
> noticed these new options when I ran the installer yesterday, and was
> very appreciative!
> 
>> - Add Ctrl-I/R/U as keyboard accelerators for
>> install/reinstall/uninstall in the package chooser (thanks to Christian
>> Franke)
> 
> I am also very grateful for this, too – I'm a keyboard monkey and I
> find the current package selection process somewhat tedious – but I'm
> also wondering if there's a way to make it more obvious. I think a lot
> of folk would benefit from this function who probably aren't reading
> these announcements, including all the folk who sign up in future. I
> can think of a couple of obvious options, namely adding instructions
> in the grey areas above or below the chooser, or adding the shortcuts
> in brackets in the package selection drop-downs, but fundamentally I'd
> just like to have it suggested somewhere other than the mailing list
> archives for future users.

Yeah, we went around this a bit on cygwin-apps.

Marking these as accelerators in the drop-down menu is apparently 
problematic in some way I don't recall the details of now (and is 
usually hidden nowadays unless you opened the menu via a keypress).

>> This is not the place for setup feature requests.
> 
> Having probably just broken that rule, can you clarify what _is_ the
> place for setup feature requests? Neither
> https://sourceware.org/cygwin-apps/setup.html nor
> https://cygwin.com/lists.html seemed to suggest a better option…

The intended meaning is that replies to that email are for reporting 
problems with that release.

It's perfectly permissible to start a new email thread with a feature 
request for setup.  Of course, the likely response is "that's an idea, 
but someone has to do it" :)

I'll try to tweak that sentence for clarity in future.


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