On Thu, Dec 07, 2000 at 10:35:10AM -0800, Peter Jay Salzman wrote:
> but also, don't forget that if your system's list of installed packages was
> in that directory, it's pretty much hopeless.  if that's the case, you'll
> have to reinstall the OS.   :(    not as traumatic as in windows, but still
> pretty drastic.  i'm keeping my fingers crossed for you.

Actually, no. You can reinstall the packages, over-writing the existing
files, while the os is running. Not really ellegant, but it should work.

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