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Subject: RE: Setup.exe release-candidate
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Date: Tue, 19 Mar 2002 23:35:23 +1100
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Max Bowsher [mailto:maxb AT ukf DOT net] 
> Sent: Tuesday, March 19, 2002 11:32 PM

> > 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".

They would say "Something like that was planned eventually anyway -
thank you very much for helping".

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