On Jul 5 13:32, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > How about using a dummy executable that doesn't depend on anything and > does nothing but print out some pre-defined message, and copying that to > /bin/sh in the preremove script? That way, there will always be a > (non-working, but who cares) /bin/sh... I was going to suggest > /bin/false, but the new version actually depends on cygintl-3.dll and > cygiconv-2.dll -- go figure.
Aren't we making this all too complicated? If you ask me, we should release a new setup.exe which refuses to deinstall the packages from the "Base" category. If anybody suffers from manual deinstalles, it's entirely a user fault and the person deserves all types of suffering. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader mailto:cygwin@cygwin.com Red Hat, Inc.