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Re: Remove obsolete packages from http://cygwin.com/packages/
On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 05:20:43AM -0400, Andrew Schulman wrote:
>>The discussion about pine made me realize that it was pretty confusing
>>to have obsolete packages listed on the packages page. So I deleted
>>them. I also deleted the equivalent entries from setup.ini.
>
>I'm confused. You mean you removed all obsolete packages from
>setup.ini? What then is the purpose of the "Hide obsolete packages"
>checkbox in setup.exe?
>
>Those packages are still in the archive, right? So if a person did
>want to install them, they'd have to go to their mirror, manually
>download them and untar them?
No, pine is not in the archive. By obsolete I actually meant nonexistent.
But, you really could just grep for obsolete in setup.ini to see that there
are still plenty of packages whose category is "_obsolete".
cgf