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Re: prev/curr/test
Christopher Faylor wrote:
>On Mon, Mar 25, 2002 at 08:27:04PM -0500, Brian Keener wrote:
>
>You don't. You find some other method for reverting to software that
>is <1 revision old. This is not a hardship. AFAIK, setup has never
>allowed you to do more than prev/curr/test.
>
A thought: mandate that every package tarball contain a standard-named
install script - similar in concept to the Micro$quash setup.inf. Then
simply keeping the old tarball would supply the user the mechanism to
drop back to that version.
>
>>I like the simpler approach for sure but let my option I select tell me
>>everything - don't give me 4 different buttons and umpteen combinations
>>to choose from to get where I want to be - talk about confusing.
>>
>
>And how do you know when you've hit the current version? You see it
>scroll by and remember that you want "1.4.9-1 bin" and then click the
>mouse ten more times to get back to that. That's really not user
>friendly, IMO.
>
>cgf
>
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