Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sources.redhat.com Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2000 13:11:09 +0000 Message-ID: <2287-Mon20Nov2000131109+0000-starksb@ebi.ac.uk> X-Mailer: emacs 20.7.1 (via feedmail 9-beta-7 I); VM 6.75 under Emacs 20.7.1 From: David Starks-Browning MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: cygwin@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: setup.exe should remove the tar.gz files of old packages In-Reply-To: <200011200418.XAA27612@envy.delorie.com> References: <200011200411.XAA27560@envy.delorie.com> <20001119231728.A14799@redhat.com> <200011200418.XAA27612@envy.delorie.com> On Sunday 19 Nov 00, DJ Delorie writes: > > > An 'rm -r' after installation should not be that big a deal. > > Carefully making sure you're deleting the download area, not the installation ;-) Or their Desktop! Or C:\! (Yeah, you can code around this, but are you sure there aren't *any* bugs?) Can't we just add a dialogue to remind the user that the *.tar.gz files remain? Then they can decide whether to leave or remove it. It's a fair point that setup shouldn't "secretly" leave 100MB of *.tar.gz files with no obvious redeeming qualities. But it seems a rather delicate matter to know what to delete and what not to, and not get it wrong. Regards, David -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe@sourceware.cygnus.com