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RE: setup.exe should remove the tar.gz files of old packages


I disagree: If I want to back out to a previous version then I would be
really miffed if I had to download it again. However if you were to
remove tarballs from two revisions back I'd have no problem :-]

Rob

> -----Original Message-----
> From: yangchunke@hotmail.com [mailto:yangchunke@hotmail.com]
> Sent: Monday, 20 November 2000 1:42 PM
> To: cygwin@cygwin.com
> Subject: setup.exe should remove the tar.gz files of old packages
> 
> 
> I think setup.exe should be able to automaticly remove the 
> old tar.gz files 
> after it has installed the latest packages successfully, 
> because those old 
> tar.gz files are of no use except wasting more hard disk space.
> It is enough for the users to keep just the tar.gz files the latest 
> packages for the reinstallation of cygwin.  
> 
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