On Tue, Apr 02, 2002 at 03:14:28PM -0600, Gary R Van Sickle wrote:
Image: you click on 'install' for 'gcc', and up pops a window
that lists
everything that gcc depends on (both requires as we have today, and
'suggested' items that aren't always needed but are useful - ie
autoconf), that was not selected before that click.
I'm drawing a blank at the utility of such a feature, at least in the guise
of a popup of any kind. You're saying that as you go through the dozens of
packages you want and select them, that a box pops up bugging you about the
dependencies of each selection, which you can't do anything about anyways?
That sounds like it would be extremely irritating.
Ditto. I also have to admit that I don't see how this corresponds with any
complaints or requests that I've seen in the cygwin mailing list.
Likewise, if you click ash off, up pops a window listing everything
that depends on ash, with an addiotnal message of Warning: removing
ash will cause these packages to be removed as well.
This does make quite a bit of sense to me. But wouldn't MessageBox()
or something akin to it be a better fit to the task? The only possible
user input here would be Yes, remove ash and everything dependent on
it and Cancel, and the only output a list of package names.
Actually, I think that automatically removing dependencies is not a good
idea. If I select binutils specifically, then select gcc, then uninstall
gcc, I would probably be annoyed to see binutils disappear.
cgf
