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On 4/30/2012 7:53 AM, James Johnston wrote:
>> -----Original Message-----
>> Sent: Saturday, April 28, 2012 23:03
>> Subject: Putting package directory in c:\Cygwin
>>
>> But what if I create a folder c:\Cygwin\LocalPkgs and stick them
> in
>> there?  From the 10,000 foot perspective, it certainly would be a lot more
>> organized to have all cygwin stuff in one windows folder.
>
> I put mine in C:\cygwin\packages.  Never had a problem.

Me, too, on my standalone Windows box at home.

At work, I keep the package tree on a network drive instead, so multiple 
client machines can share it, avoiding multiple downloads.

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