On Wed, Jan 02, 2002 at 05:07:46PM -0500, David A. Cobb wrote: >Charles Wilson wrote: > >>Since "g"ettext comes before "l"ibintl0, the uninstall/reinstall occured >>in the proper order, and I still had a working system. Unlike ncurses, >>alphabetization works for us here -- it would be bad if libintl0 was >>installed (replacing cygintl.dll with the "new" version), and THEN >>gettext was uninstalled (removing cygintl.dll) followed by installing >>the new gettext (which contains no cygintl.dll). >> >>I don't know how to deal with the problem above -- which occurs if the >>package being split (ncurses, readline, gettext) follows rather than >>precedes 'l'ibXXXX in the alphabet...but we can deal with that when/as >>it occurs. (Perhaps upgrades of currently installed packages should >>ALWAYS precede installation of new packages?) > > >I've had cases like this in another context and found the most >straightforward solution is for (setup.exe) to do any uninstalls first, >then any reinstalls, then everything else. This would also have saved a >few shot toes when libncurses#n came out (I thin`).
I've thought about suggesting the same thing but the problem with that scenario is that if you cancel an installation, then all sorts of stuff is uninstalled -- which probably isn't what you expected. cgf
