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RE: Local Setup Cache
- To: <cygwin at sources dot redhat dot com>
- Subject: RE: Local Setup Cache
- From: "Norman Vine" <nhv at cape dot com>
- Date: Sun, 1 Jul 2001 00:40:09 -0400
- Reply-To: <nhv at cape dot com>
Michael A. Chase
>
>Currently, setup.exe downloads package files from whatever mirror site a
>user selects and then installs the packages. As new versions are produced,
>they get downloaded and installed to replace the old version, but the
>archive files for the old version are not removed. Eventually this may
fill
>significant amounts of disk space with obsolete files.
>
>I see two likely ways for handling this problem:
>Does anyone see any other possibilities?
3) Some of us may want to keep the old versions for
various reasons
so IMHO any builtin archive cleaner should be non-automatic
Cheers
Norman Vine
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