WARNING : Deinstall in SCO UNIX DANGEROUS!

Warren Tucker wht at n4hgf.Mt-Park.GA.US
Wed Mar 6 05:45:46 AEST 1991


In article <9113 at lkbreth.foretune.co.jp> trebor at 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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