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Date: Thu, 1 Nov 2001 23:20:01 -0500
From: Christopher Faylor <cgf AT redhat DOT com>
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: Re[2]: setup testers wanted
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On Thu, Nov 01, 2001 at 08:12:20PM -0800, Paul G. wrote:
>
>
>On 2 Nov 2001 at 14:57, the Illustrious Robert Collins wrote:
>
>> 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?
>
>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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