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From: "Max Bowsher" <maxb AT ukf DOT net>
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Subject: Re: Setup.exe release-candidate
Date: Tue, 19 Mar 2002 12:31:39 -0000
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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.

I searched, but did not find. The point of my original question was this: At
the moment, every so often, I merge the mirror directories into my old-style
main directory by hand. If I produced a patch to add a 'tidy download
directories' option to setup, that did this, would people say "that's
helpful" or "that's stupid".

Thanks,
Max Bowsher.



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