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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july _______________________________________________ Fink-beginners mailing list [email protected] http://news.gmane.org/gmane.os.apple.fink.beginners
