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Re: question about setup


----- Original Message -----
From: "John Vincent" <jpv50@hotmail.com>
To: <geek@burri.to>
Cc: <cygwin@cygwin.com>
Sent: Tuesday, July 02, 2002 11:13 PM

You've got it exactly right.

> I know this is a bit mickey-mouse, but I want to check
> I'm doing the right thing. I know people who use this
> list disaprove of any installation not done using
> setup.exe.

It's not that we disapprove, it's that we don't know the quality of installs
done without setup.exe. Were the postinstall scripts run? Was /usr/bin
mounted? Were all the dependent packages run?

Rob


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