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Re: [HEADSUP] Let's start a Cygwin 1.7 release area


On Thu, Apr 03, 2008 at 06:01:37PM -0500, Charles Wilson wrote:
> Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>> On Apr  3 09:56, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>>> For 1.7, I think we ought to decouple /bin <> /usr/bin and /lib <>
>>> /usr/lib.  The rationale for keeping those linked no longer applies in
>>> the modern setup.exe world.
>> Full ACK!  However, this needs a bit of careful revisiting of some of
>> the packages.  For instance, assuming the Cygwin DLL will go to /bin,
>> cygrunsrv should also reside in /bin when we do this, not in /usr/bin,
>> obviously.  Right now I must admit that I prectically don't care if my
>> packages install the binaries in /bin or /usr/bin.
>
> Yep. A few things off the top of my head:
>
> 1) the shells need to install both in /bin and /usr/bin. This is up to the 
> individual maintainers when they build their -1.7 versions, but to take on 
> super-duper important shell:
> Or "tough. you want to run /bin/bash, ensure /usr/bin is in your PATH"

Yes.  Making duplicate copies is asking for trouble.

> 2) build tools (netrel, gbs, cygport) might need a few additions/tweaks to 
> support any of the above.
>
>> I don't know.  I assume I just took this as it is.  I guess the
>> only reason to create user mounts to begin with was, so that any
>> non-privileged user can create mount points, too, for a pure
>> "just me" installation in a restricted environment.
>> However, that's not really necessary anymore with /etc/fstab.
>> So I agree, we can simply get rid of fstab.$SID.
>
> No, please don't...I like my /desktop mount...

You don't need fstab to do mounts.  It's always possible to add a mount
to your .bashrc or something.  That's what you'd do on linux if you
wanted similar functionality.

cgf


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