RE: Windows uninstall now reboots system?

[JohnD]

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> Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2019 09:52:50 -0500
> From: "John W. Eaton" <address@hidden>
> To: Octave Maintainers List <address@hidden>
> Subject: Windows uninstall now reboots system?
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> I've been doing some testing of the Windows binaries and have noticed
> that the uninstaller now prompts for a reboot.  I don't recall this
> happening previously.
> 
> Is that a change we made, a change due to upgrading to a new version of
> NSIS, or something Windows is doing to us?
> 
> Is it really necessary to reboot after uninstalling Octave on Windows?
> 
> jwe
> 
> 


I see the reboot question, but never do it -and I believe it only happens If
you installed and havent done a reboot sometime between then and the
uninstall.

Its occurring because the msys2 part of the install registering of the
environment (vash --login) starts gpg-agent, and since its still running it
cant uninstall that file - hence the message on rebooting - I believe we can
disable that reboot option, however the files will still be there.