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On 04/10/2012 01:05, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote:
> Well it has to use something to validate the package. The data it
> uses is the list of files in the .lst.gz file you deleted. So it
> can't do allot of validating without that metadata.

Indeed.

> But I suppose it would make sense to not return "OK" if the list of
> files is missing.

Sure.

So I will continue to just test the presence of the .lst.gz to check if 
a package is installed:
- missing: not correctly installed
- present: installed (correctly or corrupted)

-- 
Vincent Rivière

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