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Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] Win32 NSIS: calling old Ethereal uninstaller (if existing) be

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From: Olaf van der Spek <olafvdspek@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 24 Jul 2005 13:48:41 +0200
On 7/21/05, Ulf Lamping <ulf.lamping@xxxxxx> wrote:
> For example: if a former Ethereal installer would have uninstalled a
> file named dontneedme.txt, and the later installer simply overwrites
> things, it won't even install that file (and so it won't uninstall it
> either later), this file would be kept until doomsday.
> 
> Any thoughts about this?

Doesn't the installer simply delete the entire Program Files\Ethereal directory?