Proposal: Remove source tracking from setup

[Christopher Faylor]

On Wed, Nov 21, 2001 at 02:57:32PM +1100, Robert Collins wrote:
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>From: "Christopher Faylor" <cgf@redhat.com>
>To: <cygwin-apps@cygwin.com>
>Sent: Wednesday, November 21, 2001 2:56 PM
>Subject: Re: Proposal: Remove source tracking from setup
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>> On Wed, Nov 21, 2001 at 02:26:03PM +1100, Robert Collins wrote:
>> >howabout "INSTALLED.DB 2" then?
>> 
>> It's the space that is the problem.  That would have cygcheck report
>> a package named INSTALLED.DB with a version of 2, I think.
>> 
>> Maybe that's no big deal.  It might even be useful until such time
>> as we can upgrade cygcheck.
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>Ok. BTW: this is what I meant by "silently fail" :}.

Oh.  I thought you meant that it would just stop working with no
notice.

It's already doing that in some cases, fwiw.  I need to fix that.

cgf