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Subject: RE: setup.exe should remove the tar.gz files of old packages
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Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2000 15:01:26 +1100
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Thread-Topic: setup.exe should remove the tar.gz files of old packages
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From: "Robert Collins" <robert DOT collins AT itdomain DOT com DOT au>
To: <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
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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 AT hotmail DOT com [mailto:yangchunke AT hotmail DOT com]
> Sent: Monday, 20 November 2000 1:42 PM
> To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT 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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