Date: Tue, 11 Mar 1997 23:46:49 -0500 (EST)
From: "Mike A. Harris" <mharris AT blackwidow DOT saultc DOT on DOT ca>
Reply-To: "Mike A. Harris" <mharris AT blackwidow DOT saultc DOT on DOT ca>
To: Paul W Brannan <brannanp AT musc DOT edu>
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Subject: Re: [opendos] BAD Filesystems
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On Tue, 11 Mar 1997, Paul W Brannan wrote:

> > > There's a main directory like /usr/apps then below that there are the
> > > package names like /usr/apps/omega.
> > > In the omega directory, there's the omega-specific files.
> > > You want to uninstall one app, you just wipe out the
> > > /usr/apps/omega directory.
> > 
> > Yes, thats the way that it is done now, however when shared libs
> > become a reality, and other programs share other files,
> > uninstalling becomes more complicated.  Ever try and uninstall
> > WordPerfect 6.1 from Win 3.1?
> 
> How about we port rpm to dos and when we want to uninstall something we
> just use one program which checks certain dependencies?

Sounds good, but we might want to change the extension so that
DOS/Linux files don't get mixed up.


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