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Date: | Sun, 21 Jun 2009 14:42:22 -0400 |
From: | Ken Brown <kbrown AT cornell DOT edu> |
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Subject: | cygport and update-{desktop,mime}-database |
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Cygport sometimes add lines to postinstall scripts to call update-desktop-database and update-mime-database. Would it be reasonable for the postinstall script to first check for the existence of those programs? That would prevent users from seeing mysterious error messages in their setup logs. Ken -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
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