Hi folks. A couple of my cygwinned machines have got huge /usr/src trees because I'm a bit of an obsessive collector, and at some point in the past decided it would be really neat to install the sources for every package I install. (Which is usually all of them -- obsessive collector, see...)
Now pragmatism and a home broadband connection have persuaded me to deinstall it all, and only get the sources as and when I need them, which is not often to be honest. When I run setup though it doesn't give me the option to explicitly remove sources for each package -- the Src? column for each package just says n/a and doesn't do anything when I click on it. This might be a stoopid question, but is there any reason why I shouldn't just blow away everything in /usr/src? Do any installers put other things in there that are used by applications at runtime? Should I leave the directory structure and delete the files or can I just wipe it all? Sorry if this is a weird thing to ask, I just don't want to accidentally remove things that programs have runtime dependencies on. Just getting back into this whole *nix thing after years in the MS wastelands -- it takes a bit of readjustment... Cheers, and thanks for all your hard work, Andrew. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
