Re: Installation data under "~/Downloads/cygwin/"

2015-05-04 Thread Warren Young
On May 4, 2015, at 11:23 AM, Dr Rainer Woitok wrote: > > On Saturday, 2015-05-02 01:35:37 +0300, you wrote: > >> ... >> You may safely nuke everything that is not your Cygwin installation. > > Well, what precisely IS my Cygwin installation? Only the stuff in "C:\ > cygwin\”? Yes, though I wo

Re: Installation data under "~/Downloads/cygwin/"

2015-05-04 Thread Dr Rainer Woitok
Andrey, On Saturday, 2015-05-02 01:35:37 +0300, you wrote: > ... > You may safely nuke everything that is not your Cygwin installation. Well, what precisely IS my Cygwin installation? Only the stuff in "C:\ cygwin\"? And how does Cygwin's "setup.exe" know which version of what is already ins

Re: Installation data under "~/Downloads/cygwin/"

2015-05-01 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, Dr Rainer Woitok! > after installing and updating Cygwin for several times, my administrator > account's "~/Downloads/cygwin/" directory now amounts to roughly 6GB of > data, partially dating back to 2009. Is all this stuff still needed? > If not, what to keep? All the "*.ini"

Re: Installation data under "~/Downloads/cygwin/"

2015-05-01 Thread Marco Atzeri
On 5/1/2015 1:35 PM, Dr Rainer Woitok wrote: Cygwinners, after installing and updating Cygwin for several times, my administrator account's "~/Downloads/cygwin/" directory now amounts to roughly 6GB of data, partially dating back to 2009. Is all this stuff still needed? If not, what to keep

Installation data under "~/Downloads/cygwin/"

2015-05-01 Thread Dr Rainer Woitok
Cygwinners, after installing and updating Cygwin for several times, my administrator account's "~/Downloads/cygwin/" directory now amounts to roughly 6GB of data, partially dating back to 2009. Is all this stuff still needed? If not, what to keep? All the "*.ini" files? Or only the lat