Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] Patch to ethereal.nsi ( Windows installer )

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From: "Olivier Biot" <ethereal@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2004 10:19:47 +0100
----- Original Message ----- 
From: Ulf Lamping


| Anders Broman wrote:
|
| >and yes you are right I "forgot" "gtkrc" there.
| >But a delete *.* in all directories might be a good idea for such
cases ?
|
| No. It's not a good idea to delete all files, especially at the
toplevel
| dir. There might also be some configuration files that shouldn't be
deleted,
| like a gtkrc file (not by accident :-) or a glocal colorfilters
file.
|
| In general, it's a "No No No" to delete files the user has created,
as
| he/she might better know than the installer, if the files should
remain
| or not.

If some files remain, you *may* want to inform the end-user that not
all files were deleted, and then you can click on a "Details" button
to view the details. I think the NSIS provides such functionality.

Regards,

Olivier