Professor David Kotz, Dartmouth College
[email protected]    <http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~dfk/>



On Sep 3, 2009, at 7:42 AM, Robert Wyatt wrote:

> David Kotz wrote:
>>>>    Mirror selection
>>>>    All mirrors are set. Do you want to change them? [y/N]
>>>
>>> So you would enter a "y" for "yes, I want to change my mirror  
>>> settings."
>> hmm, that's counter-intuitive.
>> I would think that "All mirrors are set" implies that fink will use  
>> all possible mirrors.
>> what else could it possibly mean?
>> so, I followed your advice and made a few changes... now it's  
>> working.
>> but as a suggestion: change the text "All mirrors are set." to  
>> something more meaningful.
>> thanks for all help.
>> dave
>
> Well, let's see what that might be. It is intended to mean that,"All  
> of the various mirror choices have been set; do you want to change  
> them?"
>
> Is that any clearer and would it have made a difference?

Not much. Another way to look at it:  what is the opposite condition;  
does it ever say "You have not chosen a mirror choice for certain  
packages"?

A more useful phrasing might be "All mirror choices are set to the  
default."   or   "Some mirror choices are set to the default, and some  
are set to alternatives."

dave


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