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Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2001 23:12:47 -0500
From: Christopher Faylor <cgf AT redhat DOT com>
To: cygwin-apps AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: Proposal: Remove source tracking from setup
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On Wed, Nov 21, 2001 at 02:57:32PM +1100, Robert Collins wrote:
>
>----- Original Message ----- 
>From: "Christopher Faylor" <cgf AT redhat DOT com>
>To: <cygwin-apps AT cygwin DOT com>
>Sent: Wednesday, November 21, 2001 2:56 PM
>Subject: Re: Proposal: Remove source tracking from setup
>
>
>> On Wed, Nov 21, 2001 at 02:26:03PM +1100, Robert Collins wrote:
>> >howabout "INSTALLED.DB 2" then?
>> 
>> It's the space that is the problem.  That would have cygcheck report
>> a package named INSTALLED.DB with a version of 2, I think.
>> 
>> Maybe that's no big deal.  It might even be useful until such time
>> as we can upgrade cygcheck.
>
>Ok. BTW: this is what I meant by "silently fail" :}.

Oh.  I thought you meant that it would just stop working with no
notice.

It's already doing that in some cases, fwiw.  I need to fix that.

cgf