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RE: How does setup.exe handle duplicate files?


Hi DJ,

are there valid reasons to have duplicates in the first place?
This isn't Win* where everything is just dumped to system32!
Are we speaking about installing a single package or multiple?
I consider a given package having duplicates in itself buggy.
My definition of a package is that several of them are distinct,
othogonal sets of files, so there also shouldn't be duplicates
across packages. Am I missing something basic here?

Bye, Heribert (heribert_dahms@icon-gmbh.de)

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	DJ Delorie [SMTP:dj@delorie.com]
> Sent:	Friday, June 09, 2000 18:22
> To:	Jason.Tishler@dothill.com
> Cc:	cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com
> Subject:	Re: How does setup.exe handle duplicate files?
> 
> 
> > I don't see how this policy guarantees that the correct instance of
> > a duplicate file is always installed.
> 
> It doesn't.  There is no way to know which version is the correct
> version.  It's a problem that hasn't been solved yet.
> 
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