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From: "Rodrigo Medina" <rodmedina AT cantv DOT net>
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Problem with /usr/share/info/dir file.
Date: Sat, 12 Mar 2005 14:29:40 -0400
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Hi,
There is a bothering behavior of the updating of some packages
(e.g. tetex-bin), that  install their own /usr/share/info/dir file,
overwriting the existing one. I for example use the info/dir file
to list the very large amount of software that the cygwin distribution
contains and some other programs that I have installed. I suggest to
find some way of protecting the /info/dir file. One way is to give another
name  to the info/dir files of particular packages (e.g dir.tetex), so the
user can include them as he pleases in his own info/dir file.

Greetings,
R. Medina



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