Is it okay to delete Cygwin (mirror) download directories?

[Christopher Faylor]

On Sun, May 08, 2011 at 01:32:12AM +0100, Olumide wrote:
>Hi -
>
>Over the years I've updated my gotten my Cygwin fix from a number of 
>mirrors each one of which has left a massive download directory (in 
>excess of 700Mb) on my hard disk. For example:
>
>ftp%3a%2f%2flinux.rz.ruhr-uni-bochum.de%2fcygwin
>http%3a%2f%2fftp.uni-kl.de%2fpub%2fwindows%2fcygwin%2f
>http%3a%2f%2fftp.gwdg.de%2fpub%2flinux%2fsources.redhat.com%2fcygwin%2f
>
>Now I'm running out of HD space I'm looking to reclaim some of that 
>space. Is it okay to delete some or all of these directories? I'm 
>concerned that the Cygwin setup program uses one of these folders to 
>determine what programs I've currently got installed.

Yes.  It's perfectly ok to delete everything in your cygwin download
directory.

cgf

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