X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.0 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,SPF_PASS X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <4A390C1E.7030405@bmts.com> Date: Wed, 17 Jun 2009 11:30:38 -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> <4A38E3E9.80905@bmts.com> <20090617143850.GB1401@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> In-Reply-To: <20090617143850.GB1401@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: > On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 08:39:05AM -0400, Ralph Hempel wrote: >> 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. :-) > > Why do you expand this to mean something that I never implied? I never > said that we should remove "Download to Local Directory". Because there's no point to having a separate download to local directory if you're going to erase the files later. The dangers of leaping to conclusions based on what I think you are thinking is becoming apparent. > But regardless, maybe a tool is all that is really needed here. Yes, and that saves everyone from thinking about how to change setup again - which is good. 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/