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Date: Wed, 2 Jan 2002 19:24:46 -0500
From: Christopher Faylor <cgf AT redhat DOT com>
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Subject: Re: Restructuring gettext
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On Wed, Jan 02, 2002 at 05:07:46PM -0500, David A. Cobb wrote:
>Charles Wilson wrote:
>
>>Since "g"ettext comes before "l"ibintl0, the uninstall/reinstall occured 
>>in the proper order, and I still had a working system. Unlike ncurses, 
>>alphabetization works for us here -- it would be bad if libintl0 was 
>>installed (replacing cygintl.dll with the "new" version), and THEN 
>>gettext was uninstalled (removing cygintl.dll) followed by installing 
>>the new gettext (which contains no cygintl.dll).
>>
>>I don't know how to deal with the problem above -- which occurs if the 
>>package being split (ncurses, readline, gettext) follows rather than 
>>precedes 'l'ibXXXX in the alphabet...but we can deal with that when/as 
>>it occurs.  (Perhaps upgrades of currently installed packages should 
>>ALWAYS precede installation of new packages?)
>
>
>I've had cases like this in another context and found the most 
>straightforward solution is for (setup.exe) to do any uninstalls first, 
>then any reinstalls, then everything else.  This would also have saved a 
>few shot toes when libncurses#n came out (I thin`).

I've thought about suggesting the same thing but the problem with that
scenario is that if you cancel an installation, then all sorts of stuff
is uninstalled -- which probably isn't what you expected.

cgf