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Re: offtopic helmet polishing (was Re: rm fails to remove symbolic links to directories)


On Apr 18 18:27, Dave Korn wrote:
> ----Original Message----
> >From: NNK_ml
> >Sent: 18 April 2005 18:18
> 
> >>> Well, /bin is the bin, that's a bit like /dev/null, but /usr/bin is the
> >>> user bin, that's where we throw all the user's files away when we want
> >>> to delete them.  Then there's the user's local bin, which is a bit like
> >>> the recycle bin in windows.
> > 
> > So /usr/bin is where you dump entire user directories, but their local
> > bin is where files go when the user deletes their own stuff?
> 
> 
>   I refer you to the last sentence of my earlier post!

Since you were all making it up anyway, let's get serious (OT alarm!):

Wouldn't it be much better(*) and cleaner(*) if every single Cygwin package
would use its own subdirectory under C:\Program Files ?


Corinna

(*) in a more Windowish sense.


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