On Mon, May 14, 2007 at 02:06:27PM -0400, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: >Alexander Sotirov wrote: >> Christopher Faylor wrote: >>> It was actually all academic before since: 1) there was nothing wrong >>> with the setup.exe on the mirrors and 2) people shouldn't have been >>> running setup.exe from the mirrors to begin with. >> >> Can you elaborate on why people shouldn't run setup.exe from the mirrors? I >> don't see what is the difference between setup.exe and the other packages. If >> you trust the mirror for all other binaries, why don't you trust it for >> setup.exe? > >Propagation time delays would be one reason. Since it's easy to grab >'setup.exe' from the source, there's no sense using one that might be >dated.
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