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Re: Re:Cygwin size


This has been discussed.  Those interested in the development of this 
feature should join the activity to improve setup.exe.  Details of 
the discussion of this feature can be found in the email archives.

Larry Hall                              lhall@rfk.com
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At 12:41 PM 7/26/2001, Steve Lhomme wrote:
>Why don't you (or anyone) simply add an install option to delete the
>downloaded files ?
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "David Starks-Browning" <starksb@ebi.ac.uk>
>To: "Jorge Goncalvez" <goncal11@col.bsf.alcatel.fr>
>Cc: <cygwin@sources.redhat.com>
>Sent: Thursday, July 26, 2001 6:02 PM
>Subject: Re:Cygwin size
>
>
>| On Thursday 26 Jul 01, Jorge Goncalvez writes:
>| > Hi, I Use Cygwin environment but there is a way to reduce cygwin size
>i.e: my
>| > package is about 400 MO, how can I do to reduce it.
>|
>| Setup will keep the tar.gz files that it downloaded from the internet.
>| It keeps these in the "Local Package Directory", which is where you
>| ran setup.exe (unless you changed it from the default).  Basically you
>| can delete the 'contrib' and 'latest' subdirectories and all their
>| contents.
>|
>| I'll add something about this to the FAQ.
>|
>| Regards,
>| David
>| (Cygwin FAQ maintainer)
>|
>|
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