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Re: Drop textmode from setup?


On Sep  7 09:18, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
> On Wed, 7 Sep 2005, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, 7 Sep 2005, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> >
> > > I mean it!
> >
> > Mean, eh? :-)
> >
> > > I don't want to drop textmode support from Cygwin(*),
> >
> > You mean, not just yet?
> >
> > > but why do we still give the user the choice in the first place?  If the
> > > user can't choose textmode in the base installation, we will have a lot
> > > more sane binmode installations in future and people will use textmode
> > > only if they (think they) know what they are doing.
> 
> I also meant to add that if we had an "Advanced Settings" pane in setup,
> the mount mode setting would go in there.

Ok with me, *iff* it's only possible to get textmode after at least
three dialogs along the lines of "Do you really think that this is
what you want?  We don't!"


Corinna

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