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Re: More: [1.7] packaging problem? Both /usr/bin/ and /usr/lib/ are non-empty


On May  5 18:09, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On May  5 15:43, Earnie Boyd wrote:
> > Quoting Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com>:
> >
> >>
> >> What do others think of this idea?
> >>
> >
> > In MSYS I auto-mount /usr to the same directory as /.  There are very  
> > little complaints about it.  If you allow entries in /etc/fstab to  
> > override the default then you can have your cake and eat it too. ;)
> 
> /etc/fstab overwrites the default entries already, so, if we do that, it
> would really just be adding the entries.

...but here's the problem.  Consider these default entries:

  C:/cygwin /
  C:/cygwin/bin /usr/bin
  C:/cygwin/lib /usr/lib

And /etc/fstab only consists of a single line:

  X:/cygwin-1.7 /

then, after reading /etc/fstab we have the end result:

  X:/cygwin-1.7 /
  C:/cygwin/bin /usr/bin
  C:/cygwin/lib /usr/lib

That looks somewhat fragile, doesn't it?


Corinna

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