Any way to uninstall in new setup.exe?

Christopher Faylor cgf@redhat.com
Thu Mar 21 08:25:00 GMT 2002


On Thu, Mar 21, 2002 at 06:52:53PM +1100, Robert Collins wrote:
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>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Christopher Faylor [mailto:cgf@redhat.com] 
>> Sent: Thursday, March 21, 2002 5:39 PM
>> To: cygwin-apps@cygwin.com
>> Subject: Any way to uninstall in new setup.exe?
>> 
>> 
>> I'd like to remove 'diff' in favor of a new 'diffutils'?
>> 
>> Is there any way to do that without causing problems?  Is
>> there anything new in setup.exe that would eliminate the 
>> dreaded libncurses problem?
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>Yes. Just make diff an empty package (to remove the files).

So this will work without side effects now?

cgf



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