Re: uninstallation

[Paul Crowley <paul@hedonism.demon.co.uk>]

Steve Cohen <stevecoh@mcs.com> writes:
> It's an excellent point you raise, and frankly, I spend so much of
> my life in the Windows orbit that I really don't have any idea what
> the answer is.  How do the others do it better?  I will leave aside
> Macintosh which maybe has an easier time of it given the tighter
> linkage between hardware and software.  How DO unix, linux,
> XWindows, OS2 handle all the system configuration and file lookup
> issues that Windows attempts to answer with its awful registry?

Check out the Debian Linux ( http://www.debian.org/ ) system for the
most complete package- and dependency-handling system in the world.
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