Re: [Patch] setup.exe - no skip/keep option buggyness

["Robert Collins" <robert dot collins at itdomain dot com dot au>]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Earnie Boyd" <earnie_boyd@yahoo.com>


> Robert Collins wrote:
>
> > There was an earlier thread on skip vs keep, and what they mean.
> >
> > It was on cyg-apps IIRC.
> >
>
> That's fine, I half recall the thread and at the time didn't have time
to
> voice an opinion.  I know skip is intended for the not-installed
packages
> and keep is intended for the already-installed packages.  However, in
the
> current invocation skip is relative to both and IMO should still be
relative
> to both.  Skip for the not-installed means leave it not-installed
(i.e.:
> leave it as is) and skip for the already-installed means don't update
what I
> have (i.e.: leave it as is).  Setup does this now, there isn't a
coding
> change for it.  IMHO, keep should be removed in favor of skip.  As I
said,
> it may be too late to say anything but...
>

At this point, I'm against any code changes that aren't release
critical.

I'm happy for this to be debated to death for the HEAD branch though.
I'm not convinced that having a separate skip/keep for the user makes
sense, but then I'm not convinced that a spin control is best their
either..

Certainly the innards of choose.cc need reworking, and I'd kinda like to
do that before bit twiddling choose.cc's gui.

Rob