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Subject:	RE: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Cygwin/XFree86 setup.exe packages with dependencies
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Date:	Thu, 18 Apr 2002 17:55:11 +1000
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From:	"Robert Collins" <robert DOT collins AT itdomain DOT com DOT au>
To:	"Harold Hunt" <huntharo AT msu DOT edu>, <cygwin-apps AT cygwin DOT com>
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Harold Hunt [mailto:huntharo AT msu DOT edu] 
> Sent: Thursday, April 18, 2002 3:30 PM
>
> Dependencies work for installing.  The behavior I noticed 
> when uninstalling is that dependencies are ignored.  I'm 
> guessing that setup.exe was designed that way because there 
> isn't really a good way to handle dependencies when uninstalling.

Yeah. On uninstalling we need some user interaction, and the chooser
isn't quite there to do that cleanly (yet).

Rob

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