X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,SPF_PASS X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <4A38E3E9.80905@bmts.com> Date: Wed, 17 Jun 2009 08:39:05 -0400 From: Ralph Hempel User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.6 (X11/20071022) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com, cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Is there a script to remove old packages from local disk References: <80152cdc0906161159r2995c80bl3e0c8ffb1d938103@mail.gmail.com> <20090616191142.GA25409@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> <4A3819B1.3000906@bmts.com> <20090617023402.GB23097@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> <4A385C7B.5080908@bmts.com> <20090617045034.GA32062@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> In-Reply-To: <20090617045034.GA32062@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-brucetelecom.com-MailScanner-Information: Please contact Bruce Telecom 519.368.2000 for more information X-brucetelecom.com-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-brucetelecom.com-MailScanner-From: rhempel@bmts.com X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Id: 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 Christopher Faylor wrote: > That's what I meant, yes. I think many people don't understand that > those files don't need to be there and since we advocate using > just the straight install from internet, we probably should be nice > and delete the files. Whenever the next round of changes to setup happens, and the talk gets around to "Removing the Download to Local Directory" or "Should we Delete the Downloaded Files", please consider saying "No" to both proposals. :-) > I really think that if you want to cleanup your download directory > other than that you should use a tool to do it. Agreed. Nuff said. Ralph -- 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/