[ANNOUNCEMENT] cygwin/xfree86 setup.exe packages with dependencies

[Robert Collins]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Christopher Faylor [mailto:cgf@redhat.com] 
> Sent: Friday, April 19, 2002 1:16 AM
> To: Robert Collins
> Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] cygwin/xfree86 setup.exe packages 
> with dependencies
> 
> 
> On Thu, Apr 18, 2002 at 05:55:11PM +1000, Robert Collins wrote:
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: Harold Hunt [mailto:huntharo@msu.edu]
> >> Sent: Thursday, April 18, 2002 3:30 PM
> >>
> >> Dependencies work for installing.  The behavior I noticed
> >> when uninstalling is that dependencies are ignored.  I'm 
> >> guessing that setup.exe was designed that way because there 
> >> isn't really a good way to handle dependencies when uninstalling.
> >
> >Yeah. On uninstalling we need some user interaction, and the chooser 
> >isn't quite there to do that cleanly (yet).
> 
> Did you see the apparent off-by-one problem in uninstalling, Robert?

Seen it reported twice... should get to it this weekend. I'm not going
to comment publicly until I review the code.

Rob