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On 28/03/2012 6:43 PM, JonY wrote: > On 3/29/2012 04:21, Brian Wilson wrote: >>>> I hope it doesn't leave the system in an unusable state if some DLL is >>>> still in use. >>> I may be wrong but I'm nearly certain that has been Corinna's goal from >>> the start. She is sometimes just a little too M. A lot of her >>> seemingly tireless efforts in getting Cygwin working are actually >>> very subtle attempts to leave systems inoperational. Nah, that's Microsoft's job. >>> >> LOL >> >> Yes, I'm sure she's diabolical that way (I guess M stands for methodical or >> meticulous). It must be the long nights spent slaving over Cygwin code has >> warped her thinking into providing helpful things like the automatic rebaseall >> feature (thank you Corina, your work has not been unappreciated) which has >> long been needed. >> >> :) :) :) >> > I don't know, I'd still feel better if there was an option to make it > not automatic, like providing a new checkbox at the end of setup "Rebase > DLLs after setup completes". It should probably be ticked by default for > most users. Murphy's Law says your first fork failure ever comes within minutes of disabling automatic rebase after a setup run ;) I've had rebase errors show up after setup installed only new packages, even when the process calling fork() seemed to have nothing whatsoever to do with those packages. Ryan -- 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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