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Re: "Legacy" Installation of XFree86/Cygwin vs. Setup.exe XFree86 Packages
Okay, thanks Harold (and the others who've chimed in in other messages).
I'll let you know what happens. It will take awhile though, I have to go
find someone with bandwidth and cdburner. :)
cheers,
-matt
Harold Hunt wrote:
> No one knows.
>
> You can install with setup.exe over top of your last installation, but you
> need to install *at leat* the same packages that you installed manually,
> else you won't get updates for all XFree86 packages, and you won't be able
> to uninstall all packages with setup.exe.
>
> Other than that, I don't think it will cause big problems, but someone
> should test it out and report back to us.
>
> Harold