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From: Jon Turney <jon.turney@dronecode.org.uk>
To: Christian Franke <Christian.Franke@t-online.de>,
	"cygwin-apps@cygwin.com" <cygwin-apps@cygwin.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH setup] Add new option --no-write-registry
Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2022 13:50:39 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <7b954e44-601f-6448-c0a1-636be014635f@dronecode.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <e73962fd-22b7-271b-caff-88035f33bed4@t-online.de>

On 09/07/2022 16:59, Christian Franke wrote:
> IMO useful for temporary test installs or "portable" installs to USB 
> devices.
> 
> The 0002-patch adds a related log message.

These patches are ok.

If you can provide a help-text for the new option, I will apply them.

> BTW: During testing I found that the "All Users" <> "Just Me" GUI 
> setting has no effect at all. If setup is run elevated, "All Users" is 
> always implied.
> 
> This is likely because read_mounts() is called again after the "Root" 
> dialog. It resets root_scope and does not re-read the registry.

Yeah.  Thanks just seems like a bug, as what is selected in the UI/via 
command line options should be controlling.

  reply	other threads:[~2022-07-12 12:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-07-09 15:59 Christian Franke
2022-07-12 12:50 ` Jon Turney [this message]
2022-07-12 17:04   ` Christian Franke
2022-07-16 13:48     ` Jon Turney

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