On Sun, Jan 25, 1998 at 01:17:11AM -0500, David E. Scott wrote: > For those of us coming to linux, Debian or otherwise, from the business > environment where when we ask the system (Mac or Win 95) to do an > install for a package, we can be pretty confident that, in fact, the > install will happen and we can be pretty confident that when the install > is finished, the particular package will work as advertised.
Unfortunately, Windows' lack of a real package manager means that when you UNINSTALL the software, several other packages might be broken. Even when all the software uses InstallShield there are still problems. (I own InstallShield Express and use it for my commercial Windows software, but it's not particularly intelligent stuff). When I recently removed some software, it removed heaps of the MFC DLLs, leaving Office, SmartSuite, Winfax, and others all unusable until I could find other copies. This doesn't happen with Debian. hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Latest Debian packages at ftp://ftp.rising.com.au/pub/hamish. PGP#EFA6B9D5 CCs of replies from mailing lists are welcome. http://hamish.home.ml.org -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
