KDE Installer reinstalls vcredist

[Christian Ehrlicher]

> Von: Ralf Habacker
> Christian Ehrlicher schrieb:
> > S Page schrieb:
> >   
> >> It seems kdewin-installer-gui-0.8.1-2.exe can't detect if vcredist is 
> >> installed, so KDE Installer never displays a checkmark next to it and 
> >> always reinstalls (but not re-downloads) vcredist_x86.exe when you 
> >> install something else that depends on vcredist.
> >>
> >> Thanks for KDE Installer!
> >>
> >>     
> > The installer can't handle executables correct now. It has to check for
> > a registry key if the redist package is already installed -> TODO
> >   
> The question is how could the install detect where a specific exe has 
> registrated in the registry by itself.
> Wouldn't it be easier to create a .mft and .ver file in the manifest dir 
> on the fly to detect install state ?
> 
When you can be sure that the user did not abort the install, yes... :)
I already found the specific registry key for this package.

Christian

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