NO huge packages, please!

Robert Collins rbcollins@cygwin.com
Thu Nov 7 23:19:00 GMT 2002


On Fri, 2002-11-08 at 05:25, Randall R Schulz wrote:


> While it's true that Setup does have a retry facility if something goes 
> wrong during download, it's manual: if a failure occurs during package 
> download, then when everything is done you get an alert stating that there 
> was a problem and asking if you want to retry. Then you're taken back to 
> the page of the wizard that downloads the package list and you pretty much 
> have to start over.
> 
> Far from ideal, really.

So offer a patch already. The use of multiple mirrors should really
reduce the need for this though.
 
Rob
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