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Date: Wed, 02 Sep 1998 17:31:51 -0700
From: Nate Eldredge <nate AT cartsys DOT com>
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To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
CC: Faisal <faisal AT student DOT unsw DOT edu DOT au>, djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: DJGPP
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Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> 
> On Wed, 2 Sep 1998, Faisal wrote: 
> > I want to suggest that the djgpp distribution would be better in one
> > file(zipped) or in multiple 1.4MB zipped files and also an
> > installer/uninstaller program would be more user friendly.
> 
> This issue comes up from time to time, but nobody as yet had enough
> motivation/resources to sit down and make this happen.

I'd like to add:

Putting the ENTIRE distribution in one file would be unwieldly and
impractical in the extreme.  There are many different packages, and
almost nobody needs them all; in fact, most people need only a few. 
That would mean *lots* of wasted space for everyone, and the 40M or so
of the zipfile would probably scare away most people.  Also, if people
should get fed up with the huge size and try to delete things they
thought they didn't need, by Murphy's Law they would probably be wrong
and screw up their installation mercilessly.  IMHO, the current system
is fine.

Most of the files are under 1.4MB already.  I have split versions of the
important ones that aren't that small at my web site:

http://www.cartsys.com/eldredge/

I admit, an installer would be nice, but as Eli said, nobody has written
it.  If you want to, go ahead; many people will thank you.  If you want
to uninstall a package, and you have the Fileutils, you can cd to your
base DJGPP directory, and do this (example to uninstall lgp2811b.zip):

rm -f @manifest/lgp2811b.mft

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Nate Eldredge
nate AT cartsys DOT com