Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Date: Fri, 6 Jun 2003 15:52:18 +0100 (BST) From: andrew brian clegg X-X-Sender: fcleg01@sark.cryst.bbk.ac.uk To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Removing old source packages In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-MailScanner-Information: Please contact CCSG (http://www.cryst.bbk.ac.uk/CCSG/) more information X-MailScanner-cryst-bbk: Found to be clean X-MailScanner-SpamCheck: not spam, SpamAssassin (score=-31, required 9, BAYES_01, EMAIL_ATTRIBUTION, FROM_ENDS_IN_NUMS, IN_REP_TO, QUOTED_EMAIL_TEXT, REPLY_WITH_QUOTES, USER_AGENT_PINE) On Fri, 6 Jun 2003, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > As long as the programs are properly installed (either by setup or by > using "make install" or some such), there should be no dependence on > anything in /usr/src whatsoever. This basically means that you may blow > away any and all things in /usr/src at will. Fire away! :-) Great, thanks. rm with extreme prejudice then. > N.B.: the above will not apply as soon as the RPM package is used, since > that package apparently uses a subdirectory in /usr/src as the RPM > repository, so beware. One subdir for rpm as a whole, or one subdir for each package it manages? I should go and RTFD though really! Andrew. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/