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Re: RFC: 1.7.33 problem with user's home directory
- From: Andrey Repin <anrdaemon at yandex dot ru>
- To: Corinna Vinschen <cygwin at cygwin dot com>, cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2014 23:23:42 +0300
- Subject: Re: RFC: 1.7.33 problem with user's home directory
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Greetings, Corinna Vinschen!
>> >> nsswitch.conf configurable settings:
>> >> user: Use %AppData%/Cygwin%PLATFORM% (Separate directory for different
>> >> platform Cygwins)
>>
>> > I really don't like this one.
>>
>> I'm just summing up suggestions that have been raised in the list for last
>> day. :)
>>
>> > Your naming scheme (user/system/cygwin) has its merits, but I don't see that
>> > a home directory of any sort belongs under AppData.
>>
>> Not home directory. User profile directory.
>> https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2014-11/msg00201.html
> I was talking about the Cygwin home dir. The home dir is a home dir.
> It doesn't contain only stuff which is application dependent.
We know that much. But it isn't easy to convince whole world in this truth.
> It may
> also contain arbitrary user-specific stuff.
Cygwin-user specific, I'd say. At least, that seems to be common expectation
among the users and developers here.
> So the Cygwin home dir
> is equivalent to the CMD homedir, which is %HOMEDRIVE%%HOMEPATH%,
Which is covered by "system" setting. Which will either read the location from
AD or use %HOMEPATH%, if all else fails.
> not %HOMEPATH%/AppData/Roaming/CMD.
I don't see, why not. Forget for a moment about its true location.
Does it matter, where the files are located, when cygwin is running?
--
WBR,
Andrey Repin (anrdaemon@yandex.ru) 12.11.2014, <23:18>
Sorry for my terrible english...
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