From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 64150 invoked by alias); 1 May 2015 12:23:43 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 64134 invoked by uid 89); 1 May 2015 12:23:43 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW,SPF_PASS autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 X-HELO: mail-wi0-f181.google.com Received: from mail-wi0-f181.google.com (HELO mail-wi0-f181.google.com) (209.85.212.181) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with (AES128-GCM-SHA256 encrypted) ESMTPS; Fri, 01 May 2015 12:23:41 +0000 Received: by wicmx19 with SMTP id mx19so31227345wic.1 for ; Fri, 01 May 2015 05:23:39 -0700 (PDT) X-Received: by 10.180.84.97 with SMTP id x1mr13877344wiy.1.1430483019045; Fri, 01 May 2015 05:23:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.0.5] ([151.60.140.99]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPSA id ch2sm6555418wib.18.2015.05.01.05.23.37 for (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Fri, 01 May 2015 05:23:38 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <55437047.8020109@gmail.com> Date: Fri, 01 May 2015 12:23:00 -0000 From: Marco Atzeri User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.6.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Installation data under "~/Downloads/cygwin/" References: <21827.25837.938200.991974@woitok.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <21827.25837.938200.991974@woitok.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2015-05/txt/msg00005.txt.bz2 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? All the "*.ini" files? Or only the latest > "*.ini" file? Or what? > > Sincerely > Rainer > It is only a cache depot. You can remove any directory like http%3a%2f%2fmirrors.kernel.org%2fsourceware%2fcygwin%2f ftp%3a%2f%2fmirrors.kernel.org%2fsourceware%2fcygwin%2f or similar. Regards Marco -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple