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On Wed, 24 Jan 2007 17:32:40 +0200, Yossi Kreinin
<yossi.kreinin@xxxxxxxx.xxx> wrote:
> > Of course if you can work out what the fuck the cygwin installer (which
> > should probably be the topic of another post) is trying to do you can
> > just install bash instead.
Their installer has NO idea whatsoever about versioning information.
If you choose more than one installation source, be baffled with the
suggested updates. I have absolutely no idea what the installer uses
to tell me that some-util-3.9.68-1 is newer than some-util-5.1.0-8.
This makes me have to interpret the suggestions on a line-by-line basis
Worse, you will have to select "keep" if you do not want the suggested
`upgrade', but keep is not the first entry when you click. First all the
other available versions come along (and that may be many if you have
more than a few installation sources), so first line is 7 clicks to KEEP
the right one, second line is 2 clicks, third is 4, fifth is a correct
suggestion, no click, 6th is 1 click only and so on and so on.
It is that I like to have Cygwin around to check if the OpenSource stuff
I work on also compiles and works in this environment, but they've by
now way passed the state of "FUN" :(
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