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Date: Sun, 21 Jun 2009 14:42:22 -0400
From: Ken Brown <kbrown@cornell.edu>
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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

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