On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 9:39 PM, Dave Korn wrote: > On 19/04/2010 19:31, Robert Pendell wrote: > >> First suggestion: Implement a prompt when a selected package has >> caused other packages to be marked as well. This dialog would include >> the newly marked packages with a Yes/No prompt if the user wants them >> marked. A warning could note that the packages may be required for >> the currently selected package to function. The user could pick no >> and continue clicking away in the event they are going to uninstall it >> anyways which is a couple more clicks away. > >> Second suggestion: Change the order of package options to Keep, >> Uninstall, Reinstall, Source. This loop should prevent packages from >> being re-selected during intended uninstall actions such as may happen >> with the X11 packages. > > For the second one, I'm still working on a patch that gives a right-click > context menu, so that you can simply jump directly to the choice you want > without going via the intermediate choices; this should at least help a bit. > (It is taking longer than I expected because I kept running into and fixing > bugs on the way, and I'm also busy trying to get a gcc-4.5 release at the same > time, but I haven't forgotten.) > > For the first one, it was suggested in the earlier discussion to keep track > of things that have only been added because they are dependencies, and keep > track of things that have been deliberately selected by the user. Then again, > it might be even simpler yet, if we just delay adding the dependencies until > the user has clicked 'next' on the package choice screen, and calculate them > all once at the end. (There are also other possibilities that come to mind > that would be a combination of or half-way between the two.) > > cheers, > DaveK >
Ahh... Ok. Thanks. ;) -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
