Message-ID:	<328F0BD1.152@cs.com>
Date:	Sun, 17 Nov 1996 04:57:53 -0800
From:	"John M. Aldrich" <fighteer AT cs DOT com>
Reply-To:	fighteer AT cs DOT com
Organization:	Three pounds of chaos and a pinch of salt
MIME-Version:	1.0
To:	grendel AT ananke DOT amu DOT edu DOT pl
CC:	Martin Bernreuther <Martin DOT Bernreuther AT po DOT uni-stuttgart DOT de>,
	djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject:	Re: Uninstalling components
References:	<328C603C DOT EB AT po DOT uni-stuttgart DOT de> <328D4A8C DOT 2CC6 AT cs DOT com> <328E1CBD DOT 2C19 AT ananke DOT amu DOT edu DOT pl>

Mark Habersack wrote:
> 
> John M. Aldrich wrote:
> 
> > Actually, this might not be a bad thing to add to the verifier/installer
> > project that Mark and I are working on...
> It shall be done! The question is where do we put it, John? Is it gonna
> be in verifier or installer?

Thinking about what Eli said, it might be as simple as a query and a run
off of the manifest file.  This seems like functionality which should be
added either to the installer or to a separate "uninstall" program. 
Actually, perhaps the best overall way would be to code the uninstaller
into the install program and make "uninstal" run install.

-- 
John M. Aldrich <fighteer AT cs DOT com>                      

* Anything that happens, happens.
* Anything that, in happening, causes something else to happen,
  causes something else to happen.
* Anything that, in happening, causes itself to happen again, happens
  again.
* It doesn't necessarily do it in chronological order, though.
 
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