Martin Costabel <costa...@wanadoo.fr> said: > David Kotz 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. > [] >>> 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"? > > This happens when you configure fink for the first time, you are then > forced to go through the mirror list. > >> 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."
As with all configure prompts, the default is usually "I'm happy with current setting". So "I wish to change things: no" is the same as "Choose among 1,2,3 current setting is 2" with a default answer of 2. Except instead of running through all the mirror settings individually, this first question allows to to avoid doing that all unless you want/need to. > I don't think this is more useful. But I agree with you that the current > formulation is useless (although I never thought it could be > misleading). There is no useful information in the statement "All > mirrors are set". There should only be a question, like > "Do you want to review the list of mirrors and change your selection?" There are alternate questions that may appear here if there are problems with the current mirror settings. "The list of possible mirrors in fink has been updated. Do you want to review and change your choices?" or "One or more of your mirrors is set to a value which is not on the current list of mirror choices. Do you want to leave these as you have set them?" That latter one is a problem that does require attention, so its default is "n"--by default you *do* want to fix broken settings. But in general, one is given an option to change things (or perhaps the option to go into a whole other section of settings questions) but the default is to leave things as they are. I think the idea is that the mirrors settings are a long list of things that are secondary to fink's configurations itself, so it was done as a subsection instead of "just more questions" as part of the others. Keeping this as a discrete section also makes it easy for fink to have a way to *just* do the mirror chunk instead of everything else first: /sw/lib/fink/mirror/postinstall.pl dan -- Daniel Macks dma...@netspace.org http://www.netspace.org/~dmacks ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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 Fink-beginners@lists.sourceforge.net http://news.gmane.org/gmane.os.apple.fink.beginners
