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Date: Sun, 19 Nov 2000 23:05:23 -0500
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From: DJ Delorie <dj AT delorie DOT com>
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Subject: Re: setup.exe should remove the tar.gz files of old packages
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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 :-]

Usually, setup.ini knows about the previous stable release.  The
tricky parts are the .gz files no longer listed in setup.ini.

I suppose we could try to be clever and only remove old versions of
*known* packages.

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