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Subject: RE: Should setup suggests to downgrade? [WAS: Lillypond for cygwin]
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Christopher Faylor [mailto:cgf AT redhat DOT com] 
> Sent: Saturday, April 06, 2002 4:20 PM

 
> I'm not sure how.  If you're talking about my suggestion, if 
> you switched to a test view and installed things, the next 
> time you ran setup you'd still default to current so, I 
> presume that setup would still suggest a downgrade.

Sorry, I was taking as read that if we made the three things into three
effectively different distributions that setup would remember the last
choice of prev/curr/test.
 
> setup should probably *never* suggest either going backwards 
> or uninstalling.

I think it should suggest uninstalling when a requirement is uninstalled
- but in a very visible fashion. As for going backwards, I haven't
thought that completely through yet.

Rob