> At 11:00 AM 3/15/2002, Max Bowsher wrote: > >Hi - Could someone tell me what the reason behind making setup put packages > >in directories named for the mirror they came from? I'm sure there was a > >good reason, I just can't figure it out. > > It's to support selecting packages from multiple mirrors. See the email > archives for more in depth discussions on this topic.
I searched, but did not find. The point of my original question was this: At the moment, every so often, I merge the mirror directories into my old-style main directory by hand. If I produced a patch to add a 'tidy download directories' option to setup, that did this, would people say "that's helpful" or "that's stupid". Thanks, Max Bowsher. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
