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Re: Should setup suggests to downgrade? [WAS: Lillypond for cygwin]
- From: Christopher Faylor <cgf at redhat dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com, cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com
- Date: Sat, 6 Apr 2002 01:20:12 -0500
- Subject: Re: Should setup suggests to downgrade? [WAS: Lillypond for cygwin]
- References: <FC169E059D1A0442A04C40F86D9BA76008AC49@itdomain003.itdomain.net.au>
- Reply-to: cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com
On Sat, Apr 06, 2002 at 10:21:57AM +1000, Robert Collins wrote:
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: David A. Cobb [mailto:superbiskit@cox.net]
>> Sent: Friday, April 05, 2002 1:59 AM
>
>> > TODO
>> > [..]
>>>* Don't downgrade if the curr version is <= installed?
>>>
>>>Btw, this should apply to test too, I think.
>>>
>>I agree. It's annoying at best to install a group of test packages and
>>then, the next time I run setup, if I don't watch carefully they would
>>revert to the current.
>
>See the cygwin-apps thread started by cgf, about seeing the light. It
>would solve this problem cleanly and permanently.
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.
setup should probably *never* suggest either going backwards or uninstalling.
cgf
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