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Date: Sat, 30 Jun 2001 16:44:14 -0400
From: Christopher Faylor <cgf AT redhat DOT com>
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In-Reply-To: <013b01c101a4$7dc98e30$6464648a@ca.boeing.com>; from mchase@ix.netcom.com on Sat, Jun 30, 2001 at 01:35:15PM -0700

On Sat, Jun 30, 2001 at 01:35:15PM -0700, Michael A. Chase wrote:
>Well your awsomeness (or is that awfulness?),

Probably the latter...

><G> my opinion is similar, but I figured the discussion needed to get
>started.

Yes, thanks.

>I see two competing communities.
>
>1.  Techies.  They probably already noticed the problem and wrote something
>to weed out the obsolete versions.  They are likely to be annoyed with yet
>another dialog box in setup to do something they have already done.
>
>2.  Vanilla Users.  They probably won't notice the issue until programs
>start to fail because the disk where their local cache is kept is full.
>Then they'll blame Cygwin for being so bloated.  They are unlikely to run
>yet another maintenance program to clean things up.
>
>Perhaps an additional radio button or check box could be added to one of the
>existing dialogs.  Two possibilities that occur to me are
>
>1.  A radio button in the second dialog box below "Install from Local
>Directory" labeled "Cleanup Local Cache".
>
>2.  A check box in "Local Package Directory" dialog box labeled "Delete
>Obsolete Package Files".  If it defaults to checked, the Vanilla Users will
>never have to worry about it.
>
>As you might be able to tell from that patch I'm submitting for the choose
>dialog, I'm not at all proficient at manipulating Windows resource files,
>but I'd be willing to write the code that does the weeding.

I think I like this solution.  I'd like to get a little more feedback on
it first, though.

Btw, I hate to admit this but I use MSVC for manipulating the dialogs.  It
has a nice dialog editor.  I hate doing it by hand...

cgf