Fred Yankowski wrote at 2004-3-10 16:20 -0600:
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Be careful: instances from no longer installed products may pose significant problems.
Yes, but the products that are removed by your procedure would be exactly those that are no longer available on the filesystem. So wouldn't any instances from those products have been broken in the first place, before deleting the products?
You are probably right. However, there seem to be two different kinds of brokenness: * Usually, broken objects are represented by a "broken object" * Sometime, they prevent access to the object that contains the broken object. I do not yet understand the difference, although I already had one case of the bad type. Maybe, I will understand it should it happen again... -- Dieter