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Subject:	Re: setup.exe selects old versions for required packages
From:	Robert Collins <robert DOT collins AT itdomain DOT com DOT au>
To:	Polley Christopher W <PolleyChristopherW AT JohnDeere DOT com>
Cc:	"'cygwin AT cygwin DOT com'" <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
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Date:	28 Nov 2001 19:55:01 +1100
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Most of this email has laready been addressed.

On Wed, 2001-11-28 at 02:28, Polley Christopher W wrote:
> Has a version requirement (similar to RPM) been considered to alleviate the
> installation problems seen with vim/gettext?

Yes, but we took the one-step at a time approach. Please note that a
version requirement will NOT solve the vim/gettext confusion. That
confusion was caused because setup doesn't check for file conflicts, and
in not checking for them, cannot take appropriate action (in this case,
upgrading the old package first, which would fix the conflict and
prevent the .dll getting inappropriately deleted).

Rob


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