On 5/16/2012 1:28, Invisible wrote:
> On 15/05/2012 09:28 PM, Warp wrote:
>> Windows has basically always been infamous for taking more and more
>> disk space over time, no matter how much you try to clean it. It just
>> grows. No other OS I know of does this.
>>
>> Apparently that behavior is now an official feature that cannot be
>> turned off.
>
> In summary, "when you install an update, we keep a copy of the old version
> as well as the updated one".

Except people seem to be missing this part:

"Service Pack 1 contains a binary called VSP1CLN.EXE, a tool that will make 
the Service Pack package permanent (not removable) on your system,  and 
remove the RTM versions of all superseded components."

In other words, if you install the new version and decide you never want to 
roll back to the old version, you can delete the old version.

Seems completely reasonable to me.

> To be completely fair, I've seen Linux package managers that won't
> redownload stuff you've already downloaded once. The difference being,
> presumably there's a way to safely delete the cached content if you want to.

There is here too. It's even described in the article.

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Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
   "Oh no! We're out of code juice!"
   "Don't panic. There's beans and filters
    in the cabinet."

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