[Fwd: Re: [Sugar-devel] [PATCH] sl#2822: Software-Update should pre-select only to-be-upgraded activities by default.]

[Daniel Drake]

On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 12:40 PM, Jerry Vonau <jvonau at shaw.ca> wrote:
> Hi all:
>
> What this patch solves is the issue of once you remove an activity from
> the XO, running sugar-update-control then wants to re-install the
> activity by default. This patch will show those activities as available
> for installation but not pre-selected, only activities that are an
> upgrade to what is already installed will be preselected. Any chance of
> getting this into sugar-update-control?

What's the use case for this? In my experience one of the primary uses
of the updater is to reinstall activities that were removed by the
user, so having them default to install makes sense (in my opinion).

Daniel