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Date: Sat, 15 Feb 2003 09:23:00 +0100
From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
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Subject: Re: Why the rash of people bypassing setup.exe to install?
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On Fri, Feb 14, 2003 at 07:34:30PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 15, 2003 at 09:42:19AM +1100, Robert Collins wrote:
> >On Sat, 2003-02-15 at 08:59, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> >>I suppose so, but, again, it seems like many people *recently* are
> >>unaware of the setup program entirely.
> >
> >Hmm, I think we should add a new screen to setup.exe.
> >
> >After the install completes..
> >
> >"Your cygwin install is now ready to use.  Please run setup.exe again
> >if you want to Install new packages, Remove installed packages, or
> >Update your install with the latest versions of your installed
> >packages."
> 
> I like it.  Apparently it is extremely confusing to many people that running
> "setup.exe" again is how you update your system, Microsoft conventions not
> withstanding.

So... hey, why is it called "setup"?  Isn't it, in the first place the
"Cygwin Package Manager"?  "cpm"?  Even the suffix of the archive files
could be cpm...

Corinna

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