On Wed, 26 Nov 2003, Ronald Landheer-Cieslak wrote: > On Tue, Nov 25, 2003 at 08:40:43PM -0500, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > > BTW, another piece of non-setup information that might be useful is an "up > > for adoption" (or "orphaned") flag. > Why not make it a setup flag? Make a nasty little pop-up box pop up when you > install an orphaned package - something like "The package ... is up for > adoption! Please take a look at http://cygwin.com/setup.html to see how you > can help out!" > > Perhaps add a new category "orphaned" as well, listing all orphaned packages > and offering to download the source by default.. > > JAT.. > rlc
Umm, we want to encourage people into adopting packages, not annoy them into it... Although prepending "Orphaned" to the package sdesc might not be a bad idea (as well as the new category idea above). Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! "I have since come to realize that being between your mentor and his route to the bathroom is a major career booster." -- Patrick Naughton