Date: Wed, 17 Jun 2009 10:38:50 -0400
From: Christopher Faylor <cgf-use-the-mailinglist-please AT cygwin DOT com>
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Subject: Re: Is there a script to remove old packages from local disk
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On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 08:39:05AM -0400, Ralph Hempel wrote:
>Christopher Faylor wrote:
>>That's what I meant, yes.  I think many people don't understand that
>>those files don't need to be there and since we advocate using just the
>>straight install from internet, we probably should be nice and delete
>>the files.
>
>Whenever the next round of changes to setup happens, and the talk gets
>around to "Removing the Download to Local Directory" or "Should we
>Delete the Downloaded Files", please consider saying "No" to both
>proposals.  :-)

Why do you expand this to mean something that I never implied?  I never
said that we should remove "Download to Local Directory".

But regardless, maybe a tool is all that is really needed here.

cgf

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