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to: Gregg N
from: Geo
date: 2005-08-10 22:40:16
subject: Re: August Patches

From: "Geo" 

"Gregg N"  wrote in message
news:42fa2c54$1{at}w3.nls.net...

> >These are critical security fixes, if you aren't going to install one you
> >may as well not install the others.
> >
>
> That's not true. It's possible that one of the security issues does not
> affect you, or you have another way of avoiding the problem it
> addresses. If the fix causes a problem for you you might not want to
> install it.

While I don't agree that this should be an option for security patches, a
single exe could easily present a list of the patches with checkboxes to
leave one or more of them out when installing it.

Geo.

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