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On Tue, 22 Nov 2005, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:

> On Mon, 21 Nov 2005, Brian Dessent wrote:
>
> > Christian Franke wrote:
> >
> > > Somewhat offtopic and probably FAQ:
> > > The local package cache fills up with outdated (no longer in setup.ini)
> > > versions.
> > > Is there any hidden setup.exe functionality or cleanup script available
> > > to delete old package files?
> >
> > There's nothing in setup.exe, but I do remember that someone once posted
> > a script that does this.  I don't recall the filename but google on the
> > mailing list archives ought to work.
>
> The script you're thinking of is Michael A. Chase's clean_setup.pl.
> Unfortunately, Googling for it mostly turns up references to it in the
> mailing list archives, and the actual site comes up only at the bottom of
> the page.  It would be nice if there was a link to this script in the FAQ
> somewhere.

Gaah, I forgot to include the link to the script:
<http://home.ix.netcom.com/~mchase/zip/>.
	Igor
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