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Subject: Re: SUGGESTION wrt preremove / postinstall / preinstall (RE: [FAQ]
	Packages reported as "Incomplete" by "cygcheck -c")
From: Robert Collins <rbcollins AT cygwin DOT com>
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Cc: "Hannu E K Nevalainen (garbage mail)" <garbage_collector AT telia DOT com>
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Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2003 11:00:32 +1000

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In general, setup needs to be taught about classes of files:
configuration files vs image files vs data and script files.

Once that general concept is in place, we can:
* support rpm and dpkg formats more effectively
* add classes for things like apache
* be smarter about rebasing=20

etc etc etc


Rob

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