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Re: Restructuring gettext
- From: "Robert Collins" <robert dot collins at itdomain dot com dot au>
- To: "David A. Cobb" <superbiskit at home dot com>,"Charles Wilson" <cwilson at ece dot gatech dot edu>
- Cc: <cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Thu, 3 Jan 2002 12:13:18 +1100
- Subject: Re: Restructuring gettext
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----- Original Message -----
From: "David A. Cobb" <superbiskit@home.com>
> I've had cases like this in another context and found the most
> straightforward solution is for (setup.exe) to do any uninstalls
first,
> then any reinstalls, then everything else. This would also have saved
a
> few shot toes when libncurses#n came out (I thin`).
It causes other problems.
Consider this: Reinstalled package foo requires new package bar.
When reinstalling foo, if bar is used during a post install script..
bang! that will fail.
Rob