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RE: setup.exe should remove the tar.gz files of old packages
- To: <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Subject: RE: setup.exe should remove the tar.gz files of old packages
- From: "Robert Collins" <robert dot collins at itdomain dot com dot au>
- Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2000 15:01:26 +1100
- Thread-Index: AcBSm1Y0wPDd6UqdRv6kxAnkIpxbMQACxYbw
- Thread-Topic: 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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