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Re: setup.exe remove scripts [Was: Re: experimental texmf packages]
- From: "Robert Collins" <robert dot collins at itdomain dot com dot au>
- To: "Jan Nieuwenhuizen" <janneke at gnu dot org>
- Cc: <cygwin-patches at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Thu, 3 Jan 2002 22:43:29 +1100
- Subject: Re: setup.exe remove scripts [Was: Re: experimental texmf packages]
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Right, this is now in CVS> Sorry about the muckup.
Rob
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Jan Nieuwenhuizen" <janneke@gnu.org>
To: "Robert Collins" <robert.collins@itdomain.com.au>
Cc: <cygwin-patches@cygwin.com>
Sent: Thursday, January 03, 2002 10:12 AM
Subject: Re: setup.exe remove scripts [Was: Re: experimental texmf
packages]
> Hi,
>
> There was a complaint about installing experimental texmf: if, after
> selecting texmf, you set an essential package for running postinstall
> to `remove' (in the case of texmf, remove sed, eg), there's no warning
> that the postinstall fails, and thus the installation was not
> completed.
>
> I wanted to look into this, and then found the remove scripts patch
> wasn't yet in cvs, nor did I see further discussion. What happened?
>
> Greetings,
>
> Jan.
>