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Re: Preliminary patch for symlink problem in setup.exe
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Christopher Faylor" <cgf@redhat.com>
To: <cygwin-apps@cygwin.com>
Sent: Wednesday, January 16, 2002 5:41 AM
Subject: Re: Preliminary patch for symlink problem in setup.exe
> On Tue, Jan 15, 2002 at 07:38:34PM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> >And a question: Wouldn't it make sense to uninstall first on
> >"Reinstall", too?
>
> It doesn't do this already? Hmm. I would expect a reinstall to
> be equivalent to an uninstall/install, yes.
Actually it's not - on uninstall one may have config files etc to purge.
On a replacement, they should be kept. (Not that we differentiate today
:}).
Anyway I had a FIXME in the code for this, and I believe I have fixed
it. It should have Chuck's neverending package splitting (:]) properly
now, fingers crossed.
Rob