> * chris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004-04-20 16:04:50 +0100]: > > Personally I would perfer a system where the setup program simply kept > a central cache, rather than a seperate cache for each mirror
Indeed! While I can easily think of some reasons to keep per-mirror caches (e.g., what if the mirrors are out of sync?) it is certainly bad UI to make the user aware of this, even indirectly. If you really need per-mirror caches, you can hide them from the user and always scan all of them. This will always be faster than downloading the same file anew. BTW, what's the policy about the older package tarballs? Are they ever removed? (it appears so...) -- Sam Steingold (http://www.podval.org/~sds) running w2k <http://www.camera.org> <http://www.iris.org.il> <http://www.memri.org/> <http://www.mideasttruth.com/> <http://www.honestreporting.com> If you want it done right, you have to do it yourself -- 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/
