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Subject: Re: My DIY solution Re: Cygwin setup.exe: Clean historical setup  packages
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On Tue, Dec 01, 2009 at 04:31:48AM -0800, LiuYan ?????? wrote:
>After I viewed setup.ini, I decide to write a little script to do this.
>Currently, it scans all the sub-directory of cygwin local package
>directory, and delete all the old files which not listed in setup.ini
>or setup-2.ini.

You didn't respond to my previous observation.

There is no reason to keep the package files around.  Why not just
delete all of them?

cgf

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