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Date: Fri, 15 Mar 2002 11:37:26 -0500
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From: "Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" <lhall AT rfk DOT com>
Subject: Re: Setup.exe release-candidate
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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.



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