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Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2003 11:29:28 -0500 (EST)
From: Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha AT cs DOT nyu DOT edu>
Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
To: Ronald Landheer-Cieslak <ronald AT landheer DOT com>
cc: Weiqi Gao <weiqigao AT networkusa DOT net>, <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: Re: Setup feature request: adding a "Skipped" view
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On Wed, 29 Jan 2003, Ronald Landheer-Cieslak wrote:

> On Wed, 29 Jan 2003, Weiqi Gao wrote:
> > I'm one of those who fires up the setup.exe program everyday and
> > download whatever that's updated since yesterday.
> >
> > I find myself going to the "Full" view and scroll from top to bottom
> > looking for packages marked "skip" and click on it to make setup
> > download the package.
> >
> > The list in the "Full" view is quite long now.  I'm just wondering if it
> > is possible to create another view called "Skipped" and show all the
> > packages that's marked skipped so that I can have a chance to click on
> > them to make setup download the packages, in a much shorter list.
> >
> > Maybe there is a better way of doing this already that I'm not aware of.
> >   In that case I would like to hear that too.
> Try setting "All" to "Install" - I think that'll do what you want.
>
> Ciao,
> rlc

Not quite.  Setting "All" to "Install" will also upgrade those packages
already on the system, whereas the "Skipped" view would only show
uninstalled packages.  Not to downplay your suggestion, Ronald - it may do
exactly what Weiqi Gao wanted, I'm just setting the record straight here.
	Igor
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