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At 12:41 PM 7/26/2001, Steve Lhomme wrote:
>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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