Upload: bash-3.0-4 [test]
Corinna Vinschen
corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com
Tue Jul 5 17:40:00 GMT 2005
On Jul 5 13:32, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
> How about using a dummy executable that doesn't depend on anything and
> does nothing but print out some pre-defined message, and copying that to
> /bin/sh in the preremove script? That way, there will always be a
> (non-working, but who cares) /bin/sh... I was going to suggest
> /bin/false, but the new version actually depends on cygintl-3.dll and
> cygiconv-2.dll -- go figure.
Aren't we making this all too complicated? If you ask me, we should
release a new setup.exe which refuses to deinstall the packages from the
"Base" category. If anybody suffers from manual deinstalles, it's
entirely a user fault and the person deserves all types of suffering.
Corinna
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