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RE: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Cygwin/XFree86 setup.exe packages with dependencies
- From: "Robert Collins" <robert dot collins at itdomain dot com dot au>
- To: "Harold Hunt" <huntharo at msu dot edu>,<cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com>
- Cc: "cygx" <cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2002 17:55:11 +1000
- Subject: RE: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Cygwin/XFree86 setup.exe packages with dependencies
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Harold Hunt [mailto:huntharo@msu.edu]
> Sent: Thursday, April 18, 2002 3:30 PM
>
> Dependencies work for installing. The behavior I noticed
> when uninstalling is that dependencies are ignored. I'm
> guessing that setup.exe was designed that way because there
> isn't really a good way to handle dependencies when uninstalling.
Yeah. On uninstalling we need some user interaction, and the chooser
isn't quite there to do that cleanly (yet).
Rob