On 21/11/2022 16:23, Adam Dinwoodie wrote:
On Mon, 21 Nov 2022 at 12:46, Jon Turney wrote:
- Add view modes "Removable" and "Unneeded" (thanks to Christian Franke)
-- "Removable" shows installed packages that were selected, but can now
be safely removed, as no installed package depends on them
-- "Unneeded" shows packages which were automatically installed, but can
now be safely removed, as no installed depends on them
Thank you, everyone involved in this! I'd been lamenting cygcheck-dep
not getting updated for the new dependency declaration methods, but
noticed these new options when I ran the installer yesterday, and was
very appreciative!
- Add Ctrl-I/R/U as keyboard accelerators for
install/reinstall/uninstall in the package chooser (thanks to Christian
Franke)
I am also very grateful for this, too – I'm a keyboard monkey and I
find the current package selection process somewhat tedious – but I'm
also wondering if there's a way to make it more obvious. I think a lot
of folk would benefit from this function who probably aren't reading
these announcements, including all the folk who sign up in future. I
can think of a couple of obvious options, namely adding instructions
in the grey areas above or below the chooser, or adding the shortcuts
in brackets in the package selection drop-downs, but fundamentally I'd
just like to have it suggested somewhere other than the mailing list
archives for future users.
Yeah, we went around this a bit on cygwin-apps.
Marking these as accelerators in the drop-down menu is apparently
problematic in some way I don't recall the details of now (and is
usually hidden nowadays unless you opened the menu via a keypress).
This is not the place for setup feature requests.
Having probably just broken that rule, can you clarify what _is_ the
place for setup feature requests? Neither
https://sourceware.org/cygwin-apps/setup.html nor
https://cygwin.com/lists.html seemed to suggest a better option…
The intended meaning is that replies to that email are for reporting
problems with that release.
It's perfectly permissible to start a new email thread with a feature
request for setup. Of course, the likely response is "that's an idea,
but someone has to do it" :)
I'll try to tweak that sentence for clarity in future.
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