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Date: Sun, 21 Jun 2009 15:28:56 -0500
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On 21/06/2009 13:42, Ken Brown wrote:
> 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.

Fair enough.  Patch committed to SVN trunk, r6855.

Thanks,


Yaakov


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