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Re: /usr vanished


Greetings, Septimus Stevens!

> If I can complain a little, I found the download defaults to be
> faulty.  Tiny standard packages like 'bc', 'more' and some others
> should be loaded by default.

Cygwin keep a copy of all downloaded packages. I don't see a reason to
redownload everything, if you just recently installed/updated it.
More so, it won't even start to download packages anew, if you choose the same
mirror each time, and use the local copy.


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WBR,
Andrey Repin (anrdaemon@freemail.ru) 23.04.2013, <17:59>

Sorry for my terrible english...


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