Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Message-ID: <00e901c1cf42$04b8dde0$42a18c09@wdg.uk.ibm.com> From: "Max Bowsher" To: References: <4.3.1.2.20020315113559.0168db08@pop.ma.ultranet.com> Subject: Re: Setup.exe release-candidate Date: Tue, 19 Mar 2002 12:31:39 -0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 X-OriginalArrivalTime: 19 Mar 2002 12:31:39.0710 (UTC) FILETIME=[04B8DDE0:01C1CF42] > At 11:00 AM 3/15/2002, Max Bowsher wrote: > >Hi - Could someone tell me what the reason behind making setup put packages > >in directories named for the mirror they came from? I'm sure there was a > >good reason, I just can't figure it out. > > It's to support selecting packages from multiple mirrors. See the email > archives for more in depth discussions on this topic. I searched, but did not find. The point of my original question was this: At the moment, every so often, I merge the mirror directories into my old-style main directory by hand. If I produced a patch to add a 'tidy download directories' option to setup, that did this, would people say "that's helpful" or "that's stupid". Thanks, Max Bowsher. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/