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From: Michael A Chase <mchase AT ix DOT netcom DOT com>
Subject: Re: Couple of scripts to remove duplicate packages
Date: Sat, 22 Jan 2005 10:04:49 -0500
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On Thu, 20 Jan 2005 13:56:10 -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote:

> On Thu, Jan 20, 2005 at 08:48:11AM -0500, Jonathan Arnold wrote:
>> Igor Pechtchanski wrote:

>>> That's a nice attempt.  However, I can see that you're not aware of
>>> Michael Chase's clean_setup.pl (which does that and much, much more).
>>> Google for it.
>>
>> It is here if you are interested:
>>
>> http://home.ix.netcom.com/~mchase/zip/
> 
> Should this be a cygwin (or maybe a cygutuils) package?

I originally wrote it as a stop-gap until setup.exe provided a way to
remove obsolete packages.  The other options came from user suggestions.

You should have a release on file for me.  Anyone who wants to add the
script to a package is welcome to. The only dependency would be the main
Perl package.

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