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Subject:	Re: new setup.exe - another problem, or is this behavior expected?
Date:	Fri, 28 Feb 2014 09:05:27 -0600
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On 2/27/2014 5:36 PM, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote:
, if you start one session of setup, select a
> package, download it, and don't install it (for whatever reason), then
> start another setup session and do the same thing with a with a different
> mirror, you'll get the same package again under a different directory tree
> (the root of that tree being loosely named after the mirror you chose).

Does this mean that install-from-internet is a better choice than 
download-without-installing when the connection is apt to be broken? Or 
for combining several overnight runs to cope with a slow connection? 
Currently I'm downloading to an external USB drive which I then use to 
reinstall Cygwin on several machines.

And thanks for the explanation.




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