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Subject: RE: Setup as recommended reading
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Date: Sun, 26 May 2002 22:45:52 +1000
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That's fine. It still needs the list of all available pacakges which I documented setup as needing a long time ago, and referenced in both of my emails on this thread. Patches would be appreciated, but other than that I think we all agree it would be nice. 

I'm bowing out of this thread at this point.

Rob

> -----Original Message-----
> From: René Møller Fonseca [mailto:fonseca AT mip DOT sdu DOT dk] 
> Sent: Sunday, May 26, 2002 10:21 PM
> To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
> Subject: Re: Setup as recommended reading
> 
> 
> The RPM package application Gnome RPM (gnorpm) has a filter selection 
> box in the install dialog with the following possibilities:
> 
> All packages
> All but installed packages
> Only uninstalled packages
> Only newer packages
> Uninstalled or newer packages
> 
> Very convenient, I think.
> 
> René
> 
> Brian Gallew wrote:
> > Robert Collins said:
> > 
> >>There is an implicit conflict there with setup, because 
> setup doesn't 
> >>know what was available before - it only knows version for what is 
> >>installed. That will change in the future.
> > 
> > 
> > How about this:  Allow packages to be marked "never install"?  Then 
> > setup can display all of the udpated or new packages, yet give the 
> > user an easy way to control what (s)he has to look at?
> > 
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