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Re: Question regarding problem during uninstall using setup.exe

* Robert Collins (2003-08-01 11:43 +0200)
> On Fri, 2003-08-01 at 10:21, Alan Miles wrote:
>> I don't believe it should be doing the

>> rmdir H:\CygnusSolutions-Cygwin Files\CygwinMachine_Package_Dirs\dest
>> rmdir H:\CygnusSolutions-Cygwin Files\CygwinMachine_Package_Dirs\build

>> commands, and I am not sure if this is a setup.exe issue, hence the reason I
>> am sending this to this mailing list.

> Setup tries to remove any directories created by packages it installs -
> which includes /.

> Improvements could be made in this area, yes.

Gentoo Linux tries to handle this with ".keep" files (zero byte).

Thorsten


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