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Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2008 02:20:00 -0000
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Subject: Re: [RFC] 1.7 Packaging: Obsolete packages
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Christopher Faylor wrote:
| It seems like maybe another change to setup.exe would be in order here
| or maybe there could be a base package which did any cleanup required to
| purge unneeded packages.

Could setup-1.7 know if the last installation was 1.5, and simply ignore
the installed.db?


Yaakov

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