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Date: | Thu, 4 Sep 2003 11:36:47 +0800 |
From: | Jason Fu <tsfu AT graduate DOT hku DOT hk> |
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Subject: | Re: Old packages... |
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Sorry that I did not make it clear. What I mean is those source files and not the installed packages. Just wonder if there's any way being used by cygwin'ers to handle a lot of binary sources of different versions after downloading the latest one. Regards, Jason Fu > On Thu, Sep 04, 2003 at 11:13:18AM +0800, Jason Fu wrote: >>Hi there, >> >>I always keep my CYGWIN packages as "current" as possible. But this >> turns out to be a lot of old files left behind/before for me to >> handle/delete. I really wonder if there's any available tactics to >> handle old files and just keep the latest version. > > You are making a point from the assumption that leaving old files behind > is a desired/expected behavior. It isn't. > > If you report the old files that are left behind to the cygwin-apps > mailing list then the package maintainer will correct that problem. > -- > Please use the resources at cygwin.com rather than sending personal > email. Special for spam email harvesters: send email to > aaaspam AT sourceware DOT org and be permanently blocked from mailing lists at > sources.redhat.com http://www.hkucs.org:8080/~tsfu/ -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
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