From: Ken Brown <kbrown@cornell.edu>
To: cygwin <cygwin@cygwin.com>
Subject: Re: setup graphical chooser : how to list orphaned packages ?
Date: Sat, 07 Oct 2017 07:50:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <f03576c5-41b3-26c8-db27-06d9f885cb3a@cornell.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <58894cff-9ff6-9297-9efb-d37db9e49804@wanadoo.fr>
[Resending to list.]
On 10/5/2017 3:01 PM, Jérôme Bouat wrote:
> Hello
>
>> If a package is orphaned, then setup has no information about what
>> category it was in when it was installed.
>
> Then maybe would it be more intuitive to select "orphaned" into the
> view/filter selector (top of the graphical chooser)
Orphaned packages are not important enough for that.
> instead of creating
> a virtual category which isn't actually a category ?
The category view is supposed to list all packages, arranged by
category. There has to be some place in that view to list the packages
with unknown category.
Ken
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-10-07 7:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-10-01 13:50 Jérôme Bouat
2017-10-01 14:33 ` Ken Brown
2017-10-01 19:07 ` Brian Inglis
[not found] ` <f36bc02e-ca7a-3065-b789-f57d44abe453@laposte.net>
2017-10-05 6:58 ` Ken Brown
2017-10-05 18:05 ` Achim Gratz
2017-10-05 18:52 ` Jon Turney
2017-10-05 19:01 ` Jérôme Bouat
2017-10-07 7:50 ` Ken Brown [this message]
2017-10-13 19:26 ` Jérôme Bouat
2017-10-13 19:37 ` Achim Gratz
2017-10-13 19:49 ` Brian Inglis
2017-10-13 20:16 ` Ken Brown
2017-10-14 15:31 ` cyg Simple
2017-10-14 16:11 ` Marco Atzeri
2017-10-15 4:24 ` cyg Simple
2017-10-15 16:10 ` Ken Brown
2017-10-15 18:28 ` Jérôme Bouat
2017-10-16 13:32 ` cyg Simple
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