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Subject: RE: [ANNOUNCEMENT] cygwin/xfree86 setup.exe packages available for comments and testing
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Charles Wilson [mailto:cwilson AT ece DOT gatech DOT edu] 
> Sent: Sunday, April 21, 2002 8:33 AM

>if you select the source for more than one of [bob|bobx|boby], then it 
>is downloaded only once (good) but is unpacked three times.  This isn't

>a terrible thing, but it is a waste of effort....

This won't change anytime soon. Long term we'll have the concept of a
source package - as opposed to a src attribute of an existing package.
This will require setup.ini changes to represent properly, so I want all
the kinks out first...

Rob