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Subject:	Re: Re:Cygwin size
Date:	Thu, 26 Jul 2001 18:41:46 +0200
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Why don't you (or anyone) simply add an install option to delete the
downloaded files ?

----- Original Message -----
From: "David Starks-Browning" <starksb AT ebi DOT ac DOT uk>
To: "Jorge Goncalvez" <goncal11 AT col DOT bsf DOT alcatel DOT fr>
Cc: <cygwin AT sources DOT redhat DOT com>
Sent: Thursday, July 26, 2001 6:02 PM
Subject: Re:Cygwin size


| On Thursday 26 Jul 01, Jorge Goncalvez writes:
| > Hi, I Use Cygwin environment but there is a way to reduce cygwin size
i.e: my
| > package is about 400 MO, how can I do to reduce it.
|
| Setup will keep the tar.gz files that it downloaded from the internet.
| It keeps these in the "Local Package Directory", which is where you
| ran setup.exe (unless you changed it from the default).  Basically you
| can delete the 'contrib' and 'latest' subdirectories and all their
| contents.
|
| I'll add something about this to the FAQ.
|
| Regards,
| David
| (Cygwin FAQ maintainer)
|
|
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