Crashing setup.exe

[Max Bowsher]

robertc <robert.collins@syncretize.net> wrote:
> No. One SHOULD NOT TOUCH the cygwin packages directory. Setup reserves
> the right to do -anything- it wants to that dir, including zapping the
> content, moving files etc etc.

Setup has the right to use its package cache as it sees fit, but users of setup
have the right to manage setup's use of their hard disc. If everyone treated
package directories opaquely, they would never purge old versions of packages,
and sooner or later, we would all have 10GB package directories. The setup's
handling of its cache should be like the rest of cygwin - if you don't like it,
make a clean, debugged patch to change it, and provide a good argument to why it
should be applied.

I appreciate you are trying to prevent aimless discussion, but setup's cache
_cannot_ be a black box.

Max.




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