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Re: Why is there a ZZZRemovedpackages?


On Fri, 3 Sep 2004, Carlo Florendo wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I'm actually not encountering any problem with cygwin now.  It has
> actually been performing impressively!  Thanks to all you cygwin people.

That's good to know.

> In any case, we keep a mirror of the cygwin releases and I was just
> curious why there is a ZZZRemovedpackages directory under /release.
> What's it for? Is it ok if I remove it completely from oour local mirror
> site?

I believe the category was created by Harold Hunt for the XFree86 upgrade
helpers when Cygwin/X switched to the X.org source base.  The name of the
category was supposed to imply that the packages should not be installed
on a fresh install.  The packages in that category are all very small,
though (about .5k per directory), and installing them should be harmless.
You can go either way.
	Igor
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