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Re: State of ddd and cygipc package
On Tue, May 24, 2005 at 05:37:47PM -0700, Brian Dessent wrote:
>Charles Wilson wrote:
>
>> If cygipc is removed from the mirrors (and from setup.ini), setup.exe
>> won't UNinstall it from some poor user's system and break their
>> self-compiled "foo" package that uses cygipc, will it?
>
>The only way that would happen (AFAIK) is if an empty dummy cygipc
>package with bumped version number was placed on the mirrors, which
>setup would "upgrade" to, removing the current cygipc and replacing it
>with bupkis.
Right.
Should I just move cygipc into the _obsolete directory and change its
category to "_obsolete"? That shouldn't hurt any existing installations.
cgf