Re: [Mingw-users] The recent string of problems with install packages.

[John B. <joh...@ho...>]

On Fri, 13 Sep 2013 21:53:36 +0100, Keith Marshall wrote:
>
> On 13/09/13 20:44, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>>
>> IMO, mingw-get should ask the user to decide there and then whether or
>> not to overwrite the DLL.
[snip]
>What unzip does in similar situations is IMO much more
>> reasonable:
>>
>> replace foo/bar? [y]es, [n]o, [A]ll, [N]one, [r]ename:
>
[snip]
>
> If the option is to be offered, this would almost be a requirement IMO.
> That then, implicitly, would require an individual prompt for each and
> every colliding file, which would likely become intensely annoying to
> users,


You can provide a "Do not ask again" checkbox to avoid this.

Regards,
John Brown.