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Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote:

<snip>

> 
> You may have used a "3rd-party" site as well.  There are sites out there
> that have set themselves up to deliver packages in the 'setup.exe' format.
> Once you add one of these sites to your list, 'setup.exe' continues to
> use it until you tell it now to.  So if you're curious, you should check
                            ^^^
                            not
> the sites that 'setup.exe' presents on the machine with Perl 5.8.8.  You
> can also pull to you local system a package from another site and install
                    ^^^
                    your
> it that way with 'setup.exe'.  The point is that there are ways of
> installing packages that aren't part of the distribution.  Somehow, you've
> managed to do that here, since 5.8.8 isn't part of the Cygwin distribution.
> 
> 


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A: Yes.
 > Q: Are you sure?
 >> A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation.
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