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Subject: Re: Is setup.exe _supposed_ to delete the cygwin dll before attempting to run shell scripts?
Date: Fri, 24 Sep 2004 19:41:18 +0100
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Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
> This is more likely to be the culprit -- postinstall scripts are run after
> all the package files were installed.  Unfortunately, preremove script
> dependencies aren't easily computed from regular package dependencies --
> this has been discussed on cygwin-apps some time ago.

Couldn't this be trivially solved by running all preremove scripts in a 
batch, before actually beginning to delete files?

Any flaw to that reasoning?

I guess I should now go and see how hard that would be to make happen...

Max.


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