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[Christopher Faylor]

On Mon, May 26, 2014 at 10:18:20PM -0500, Steven Penny wrote:
>On Mon, May 26, 2014 at 3:12 PM, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>> And, frankly, I think it's a bad idea to keep a monolithic list of
>> packages available for people to download anyway.
>
>Could you not just require each package includes a file list? This way you could
>get the information from any mirror.

Not interested.

>This would ease the burden of the cygwin.com site, as it is the only site with
>that information currently

It is surviving just fine.

cgf

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