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From: wht@n4hgf.Mt-Park.GA.US (Warren Tucker)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: Re: WARNING : Deinstall in SCO UNIX DANGEROUS!
Keywords: sco unix packages install deinstall bug danger
Message-ID: <357@n4hgf.Mt-Park.GA.US>
Date: 5 Mar 91 19:45:46 GMT
References: <9113@lkbreth.foretune.co.jp>
Reply-To: wht@n4hgf.Mt-Park.GA.US (Warren Tucker)
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Organization: Amateur Radio Station N4HGF
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In article <9113@lkbreth.foretune.co.jp> trebor@lkbreth.foretune.co.jp (Robert J Woodhead) writes:
>However, I did find it disturbing that doing a partial install of the
>SCO development system partially DEINSTALLS the extended utilties of the
>OS.  In order to get things to work, you must then re-install the utilities.
>
>Did anyone at SCO ever bother to test their install/deinstall scripts?

I haven't experienced the problems you discuss, but there are some
warnings in the release notes about certain deinstalls. None of them
spoke of /usr going away in toto.
 
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