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From: | "Robert Collins" <robert DOT collins AT itdomain DOT com DOT au> |
To: | "David A. Cobb" <superbiskit AT home DOT com>, |
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Subject: | Re: Restructuring gettext |
Date: | Thu, 3 Jan 2002 12:13:18 +1100 |
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=== ----- Original Message ----- From: "David A. Cobb" <superbiskit AT home DOT com> > I've had cases like this in another context and found the most > straightforward solution is for (setup.exe) to do any uninstalls first, > then any reinstalls, then everything else. This would also have saved a > few shot toes when libncurses#n came out (I thin`). It causes other problems. Consider this: Reinstalled package foo requires new package bar. When reinstalling foo, if bar is used during a post install script.. bang! that will fail. Rob
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