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Re: State of ddd and cygipc package
On May 24 23:34, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> 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.
Er... http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-apps/2005-05/msg00276.html
Corinna
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