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[Roberto Carlos González Flores <iscrobertogonzalez@xxxxxxxxx>]

Quote:
"Oh, and another… I was thinking we should have a Property that can be
passed in on the command line indicating if a package is user-requested or
not; if the user has request it, we should show the package in Add/Remove
programs."

And what happen if the user hasn't requested the package?, I see a security
hole on this. Imagine "good packages" installing background "evil packages"
without prompting the user... maybe is because I don't have all the
information of how this will be work.


2011/2/15 Garrett Serack <garretts@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

>  After talking with Rob Mensching, I think we can scale back the version
> of the Windows Installer required (at least for now) to Installer 3.1 … this
> should significantly simplify the bootstrapper.
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> Oh, and another… I was thinking we should have a Property that can be
> passed in on the command line indicating if a package is user-requested or
> not; if the user has request it, we should show the package in Add/Remove
> programs.
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-- 
Carlos