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Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2003 11:39:59 -0500
From: Christopher Faylor <cgf-no-personal-reply-please AT cygwin DOT com>
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Subject: Re: install native/x11 ghostscript (setup.exe question)
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On Fri, Dec 12, 2003 at 08:04:43AM -0800, Dario Alcocer wrote:
>On Wed, 3 Dec 2003 17:41:30 +0100
>(=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Westeurop=E4ische_Normalzeit?=)
>Ulf-Dietrich Braumann <braumann AT izbi DOT uni-leipzig DOT de> wrote:
>
>> My question simply is, why setup recommends installing the
>> native gs even if the x11 version was already installed, or even
>> further, if there is some mechanism to ensure exclusive installation
>> of such packages.
>
>This is a *very* good question; unfortunately my knowledge of
>setup.exe's inner workings is very limited.  Hopefully someone else
>(cgf, Chuck, Nicholas, ?) might be able to answer this one.

Actually, this is one from Robert Collins.

cgf

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