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RE: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Cygwin/XFree86 setup.exe packages with dependencies




> -----Original Message-----
> From: Harold Hunt [mailto:huntharo@msu.edu] 
> Sent: Thursday, April 18, 2002 3:30 PM
>
> Dependencies work for installing.  The behavior I noticed 
> when uninstalling is that dependencies are ignored.  I'm 
> guessing that setup.exe was designed that way because there 
> isn't really a good way to handle dependencies when uninstalling.

Yeah. On uninstalling we need some user interaction, and the chooser
isn't quite there to do that cleanly (yet).

Rob


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