On Mon, May 02, 2005 at 11:26:50AM -0300, Javier Kohen wrote: > Well, Microsoft tried to exterminate the installer for many of their > products and instead release them under the Windows umbrella and look > what happened. They got sued and had to offer an option to remove > Internet Explorer's icon from the desktop. :-)
If they had written a unified installer that made SURE a proper list of files and changes made during the install was in place which could ensure a clean uninstall, then they would have done something useful. Then they should have told everyone to just deliver a program as something that installer could install and uninstall and put up huge warning signs whenever an executable was run that wasn't in the list of the installer's database (since it would be either a not properly installed program, or a 3rd party installer program). That is what dpkg does to some extent. Anyone can go make a .deb using the dpkg tools and it will install and uninstall properly (as long as they don't do anything stupid in the preinst/postinst/prerm/postrm files). The debian nvidia packages work very well and do the right thing (for a debian system). Len Sorensen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
