update via setup.exe removed NTFS junction?

Shankar Unni shankarunni@netscape.net
Thu Feb 5 01:09:00 GMT 2004


Rafael Kitover wrote:

> Maybe either Cygwin or fileutils could have some support for NTFS 
 > junctions,

The right long-term answer is to do proper reference counting among the 
packages. I.e. if two packages install a common file or directory, its 
reference count is 2. When uninstalling one of them, the reference count 
is decremented. Only if it is 0 is the file removed.

This is implemented by many package managers out there, but only works 
if the package format has some builtin notion of an "add file" or "add 
directory" that can be undone during the uninstall, and does not depend 
on a "cleanup script" to clean up the files.

It's quite a lot of work.


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