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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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