Re: Installer question

2005-01-26 Thread Warren Young
Max Bowsher wrote: Unfortunately, no. I seem to recall that the setup hint file mechanism allows you to set an older version to be the current, while still allowing the newer version to be downloaded on request. If the package is broken for lots of people, perhaps findutils' maintainer should d

Re: Installer question

2005-01-26 Thread Max Bowsher
Chuck wrote: Is there a way to tell the installer never to update findutils? The current version of that package is still broken and every time I update other packages, it installs the newer findutils by default. I want it to ignore findutils while still updating other packages. Unfortunately, no.

Re: Installer question

2003-11-14 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Fri, 14 Nov 2003, Andre Bleau wrote: > >On Thu, Nov 13, 2003 at 07:59:43PM -0500, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > > >On Thu, 13 Nov 2003, Anon Mouse wrote: > > > > > >> Hello, > > >> > > >> Couple of comments on the installer: > > >> > > >> - Does it have to be non-resizable? It's REALLY a pain

Re: Installer question

2003-11-14 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Nov 14, 2003 at 05:16:17PM -0500, Andre Bleau wrote: >You could outsmart cgf by buying a larger monitor. What appears as a 3-inch >window on a 15-inch monitor would be 4.5-inch on a 22-inch screen. By 2010, >45-inch monitors will be common place, and setup's chooser will thus be >(wow!)

Re: Installer question

2003-11-14 Thread Andre Bleau
On Thu, Nov 13, 2003 at 07:59:43PM -0500, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: >On Thu, 13 Nov 2003, Anon Mouse wrote: > >> Hello, >> >> Couple of comments on the installer: >> >> - Does it have to be non-resizable? It's REALLY a pain to keep >> scrolling left-right-left-right in a 3-inch window > >Yes,

Re: Installer Question

2003-11-13 Thread Anon Mouse
Rob, Igor - Thanks for the pointer on how to get everything at once, as well as to the resizable setup binary. While I'm intested in reading the discussion you mention, I couldn't find it right off. >>>Does the installer really have to be this difficult? >Yes. And to anticipate your nex

Re: Installer question

2003-11-13 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Nov 13, 2003 at 07:59:43PM -0500, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: >On Thu, 13 Nov 2003, Anon Mouse wrote: > >> Hello, >> >> Couple of comments on the installer: >> >> - Does it have to be non-resizable? It's REALLY a pain to keep >> scrolling left-right-left-right in a 3-inch window > >Yes, i

Re: Installer question

2003-11-13 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Thu, 13 Nov 2003, Anon Mouse wrote: > Hello, > > Couple of comments on the installer: > > - Does it have to be non-resizable? It's REALLY a pain to keep > scrolling left-right-left-right in a 3-inch window Yes, it does. The version of the installer currently distributed off the main Cygw

Re: Installer question

2003-11-13 Thread Robert Collins
On Fri, 2003-11-14 at 11:44, Anon Mouse wrote: > Hello, > > Couple of comments on the installer: > > - Does it have to be non-resizable? It's REALLY a > pain to keep scrolling left-right-left-right in a > 3-inch window There's a snapshot that addresses that. > - Why isn't there an option