https://issues.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=119948
Rob Weir <[email protected]> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|UNCONFIRMED |CONFIRMED Ever confirmed|0 |1 --- Comment #10 from Rob Weir <[email protected]> --- The correct way of handling this is described here: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/subscriptions/aa368606%28v=vs.85%29.aspx You treat it like a shared DLL, and reference count it in the registry. If another application also depends on the fonts, then it should increment the reference count. If all apps do this, then they increment the reference count at install, and decrement it at uninstall. If the reference count drops to zero then the uninstaller is safe to remove the files. If the reference count is not zero, then you know another application depends on the file. This method works well only if other applications follow these same conventions. Not all of them do. So it is also common for an uninstaller to prompt the user on whether it is OK to remove shared files that are no longer needed. See also 2.3 here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/aa372825%28v=vs.85%29.aspx -- You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the bug.
