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Subject: Re: Preliminary patch for symlink problem in setup.exe
Date: Sun, 20 Jan 2002 00:35:43 +1100
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Christopher Faylor" <cgf AT redhat DOT com>
To: <cygwin-apps AT cygwin DOT com>
Sent: Wednesday, January 16, 2002 5:41 AM
Subject: Re: Preliminary patch for symlink problem in setup.exe


> On Tue, Jan 15, 2002 at 07:38:34PM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> >And a question:  Wouldn't it make sense to uninstall first on
> >"Reinstall", too?
>
> It doesn't do this already?  Hmm.  I would expect a reinstall to
> be equivalent to an uninstall/install, yes.

Actually it's not - on uninstall one may have config files etc to purge.
On a replacement, they should be kept. (Not that we differentiate today
:}).

Anyway I had a FIXME in the code for this, and I believe I have fixed
it. It should have Chuck's neverending package splitting (:]) properly
now, fingers crossed.

Rob