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Re: setup.exe should remove the tar.gz files of old packages

To: robert dot collins at itdomain dot com dot au
Subject: Re: setup.exe should remove the tar.gz files of old packages
From: DJ Delorie <dj at delorie dot com>
Date: Sun, 19 Nov 2000 23:05:23 -0500
CC: cygwin at cygwin dot com
References: <188CAABFF1C6AD4D946FF2170CD8B7AA64B3@itdomain002.itdomain.net.au>


> I disagree: If I want to back out to a previous version then I would be
> really miffed if I had to download it again. However if you were to
> remove tarballs from two revisions back I'd have no problem :-]

Usually, setup.ini knows about the previous stable release.  The
tricky parts are the .gz files no longer listed in setup.ini.

I suppose we could try to be clever and only remove old versions of
*known* packages.

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