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Date: Wed, 3 Sep 2003 23:18:12 -0400
From: Christopher Faylor <cgf-rcm AT cygwin DOT com>
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Subject: Re: Old packages...
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On Thu, Sep 04, 2003 at 11:13:18AM +0800, Jason Fu wrote:
>Hi there,
>
>I always keep my CYGWIN packages as "current" as possible. But this turns out 
>to be a lot of old files left behind/before for me to handle/delete. I really 
>wonder if there's any available tactics to handle old files and just keep the 
>latest version.

You are making a point from the assumption that leaving old files behind is
a desired/expected behavior.  It isn't.

If you report the old files that are left behind to the cygwin-apps mailing list
then the package maintainer will correct that problem.
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