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Re: RCS 5.7 (?) + setup.exe advice
- From: "Robert Collins" <robert dot collins at itdomain dot com dot au>
- To: "Dylan Cuthbert" <dylan at q-games dot com>,<cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2002 09:16:28 +1100
- Subject: Re: RCS 5.7 (?) + setup.exe advice
- References: <004601c1b437$4c883380$2801a8c0@dcuthbert2k> <005801c1b438$abcc8480$2801a8c0@dcuthbert2k> <20020213025259.GK28002@redhat.com> <001301c1b453$bb973a20$2801a8c0@dcuthbert2k>
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Dylan Cuthbert" <dylan@q-games.com>
To: <cygwin@cygwin.com>
Sent: Wednesday, February 13, 2002 5:00 PM
Subject: Re: RCS 5.7 (?) + setup.exe advice
> Ah, I get it now, I had a full installation of an older version of
cygwin
> and of course when I ran the setup program to update it doesn't
> automatically tell you about new packages, one of which was rcs. It
isn't
> obvious to the average user (ie. me) to have to step through the
rather
> large package list looking for "skip"s to click through to install - I
had
> already done that once and that was one time too many. Hence the
> confusion...
>
> A "show new packages" and a "show un-installed packages" addition to
> setup.exe might be a good (and simple/ie. easy to program) addition to
the
> user-interface and probably solve the flurry of this kind of e-mail
that
> gets sent every day. If I had enough time I'd do it however I just
don't
> unfortunately so all I can do is lay my hope in some kind soul out
there...
Sure. Feel free to code them, both (IIRC) are already in the wishlist.
Rob
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