Norton Allen <al...@huarp.harvard.edu> writes: > On 4/9/2010 5:56 AM, Paul Bibbings wrote: >> If by "add a right-click context menu to the spinner" you intend to >> retain the current problematic behaviour of the spinner but add the >> context menu by way of avoiding the noted problems of cycling through >> `uninstall', then I would, as a user, see that as an inconsistency. I >> would expect the two to be alternative ways of achieving the same thing >> and regard the (presumably) silent difference to be a design flaw. I may >> be missing something, but I'm wondering how it is that, if the pass >> through `install' can put in all the dependencies, continuing to >> `uninstall' can't just take them out again? >> > So what you want setup to do is remember whether a package was selected > by the user or simply included to satisfy a dependency. Then when a > package is deselected, the dependencies can be reevaluated.
Although I hadn't considered it fully when I wrote the above, this idea certainly emerged as one that addresses a valid use case, the more I thought about it. Having said that, the more that I /have/ thought about it, the more the set of valid use-cases seems to grow and the whole thing starts to look horribly complex. Not that I'm wanting to suggest that all `valid' (whatever that means) use cases /should/ be accommodated. Like any maintenance project, if no-one's asking for it, don't add it. On a related note, it does seem that the current implementation is quite geared towards the user simply making choices and then proceeding straight to next. It's when a user changes their mind, or performs other actions before proceeding to next that issues seem to arise. For instance, if I click on the view button and select `Not installed', suppose I select a package that I don't have - for example (I'm trying this now), aspell-dev 0.60.5-1. Then, suppose I merely cycle through the Views and come back to `Not installed'. aspell-dev is no longer in the list, despite the fact that I have not done anything other than change the view. It is no more installed now than it was before. Regards Paul Bibbings -- 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