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Re: Preliminary patch for symlink problem in setup.exe

On Tue, Jan 15, 2002 at 01:41:19PM -0500, Chris Faylor wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 15, 2002 at 07:38:34PM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> >And a question:  Wouldn't it make sense to uninstall first on
> >"Reinstall", too?
> 
> It doesn't do this already?  Hmm.  I would expect a reinstall to
> be equivalent to an uninstall/install, yes.

Yeah, me too(tm).

The current implementation just installs over the existing files
(getting the endless-loop problem when the file is locked).

Corinna

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