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Subject: Re: Local Setup Cache
Date: Sat, 30 Jun 2001 14:00:46 -0700
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Christopher Faylor" <cgf AT redhat DOT com>
To: <cygwin-developers AT cygwin DOT com>
Sent: Saturday, June 30, 2001 13:44
Subject: Re: Local Setup Cache


> On Sat, Jun 30, 2001 at 01:35:15PM -0700, Michael A. Chase wrote:
> >Well your awsomeness (or is that awfulness?),
>
> Probably the latter...

I always wondered what the colonists meant when they addressed their
sovereign as Your Awful Majesty.  Maybe now I know.

> ><G> my opinion is similar, but I figured the discussion needed to get
> >started.
>
> Yes, thanks.
>
> >I see two competing communities.
> >
> >1.  Techies.  They probably already noticed the problem and wrote
something
> >to weed out the obsolete versions.  They are likely to be annoyed with
yet
> >another dialog box in setup to do something they have already done.
> >
> >2.  Vanilla Users.  They probably won't notice the issue until programs
> >start to fail because the disk where their local cache is kept is full.
> >Then they'll blame Cygwin for being so bloated.  They are unlikely to run
> >yet another maintenance program to clean things up.
> >
> >Perhaps an additional radio button or check box could be added to one of
the
> >existing dialogs.  Two possibilities that occur to me are
> >
> >1.  A radio button in the second dialog box below "Install from Local
> >Directory" labeled "Cleanup Local Cache".
> >
> >2.  A check box in "Local Package Directory" dialog box labeled "Delete
> >Obsolete Package Files".  If it defaults to checked, the Vanilla Users
will
> >never have to worry about it.
> >
> >As you might be able to tell from that patch I'm submitting for the
choose
> >dialog, I'm not at all proficient at manipulating Windows resource files,
> >but I'd be willing to write the code that does the weeding.
>
> I think I like this solution.  I'd like to get a little more feedback on
> it first, though.

Should I recap this to cygwin-users?  Without your horrifying confession of
course.

>
> Btw, I hate to admit this but I use MSVC for manipulating the dialogs.  It
> has a nice dialog editor.  I hate doing it by hand...

Oh the horror!

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