[Xastir] Cygwin

[Curt, WE7U]

On Wed, 14 Apr 2004, Henk de Groot wrote:

> If you don't select the XFree86 "upgrade" and add the Xorg-X11 packages
> next to it there is no problem. If however you later decide to uninstall
> the XFree86 packages then it will take the files installed by Xorg-X11 down
> with it (since both packages install a lot of files with the same name at
> the same path). To prevent that they install an "upgrade" with no files at
> all to make it save to remove the package without causing damage at a later
> time. Alternatively you can also uninstall the XFree86 packages directly at
> the same time you install the Xorg-X11 packages.

Ok, that last is exactly what I did and it worked.  This is kind'a
confusing the way they did it.  It probably fits into their system
well but I'll bet they'll have to do a lot of support for a while on
this issue.


> I'm no expert, but that is what I could make of this practice. Your
> description is okay, you want to describe a clean install, not an upgrade.

Ok.  Good enough then.  Thanks for looking at all this!

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