Why is there a ZZZRemovedpackages?

Carlo Florendo list-subscriber@hq.astra.ph
Tue Sep 7 05:48:00 GMT 2004


Igor Pechtchanski wrote:

>On Fri, 3 Sep 2004, Carlo Florendo wrote:
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>>Hello,
>>
>>I'm actually not encountering any problem with cygwin now.  It has
>>actually been performing impressively!  Thanks to all you cygwin people.
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>That's good to know.
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>>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?
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>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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Great!  Thank you very much for the enlightenment!

Best Regards,

Carlo
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Carlo Florendo
Astra Philippines Inc.
www.astra.ph



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