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RE: Should setup suggests to downgrade? [WAS: Lillypond for cygwin]
- From: "Robert Collins" <robert dot collins at itdomain dot com dot au>
- To: <cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Sat, 6 Apr 2002 17:35:38 +1000
- Subject: RE: Should setup suggests to downgrade? [WAS: Lillypond for cygwin]
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Christopher Faylor [mailto:cgf@redhat.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