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: Wed, 3 Sep 2003 23:18:12 -0400 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Old packages... Message-ID: <20030904031812.GA31193@redhat.com> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <3F57C559@webmaila.hku.hk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3F57C559@webmaila.hku.hk> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Note-from-DJ: This may be spam On Thu, Sep 04, 2003 at 11:13:18AM +0800, Jason Fu wrote: >Hi there, > >I always keep my CYGWIN packages as "current" as possible. But this turns out >to be a lot of old files left behind/before for me to handle/delete. I really >wonder if there's any available tactics to handle old files and just keep the >latest version. You are making a point from the assumption that leaving old files behind is a desired/expected behavior. It isn't. If you report the old files that are left behind to the cygwin-apps mailing list then the package maintainer will correct that problem. -- Please use the resources at cygwin.com rather than sending personal email. Special for spam email harvesters: send email to aaaspam@sourceware.org and be permanently blocked from mailing lists at sources.redhat.com -- 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/