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On 3/19/08, Dan Kegel <dank AT kegel DOT com> wrote: > Don't assume that everyone who asks the question > is trying to cheat or bend the rules; I'm a pretty fierce It is true -- not everyone who wants multiple cygwins installed is a software packager trying to profit off of cygwin. I have found it beneficial to create these multiple installations many times, though it of course didn't work. For instance, these two scenarios happened to me recently: * When I want to test installing something myself for which there is no cygwin package supplied, and I don't want to break anything (nor am I able to backup the current cygwin root tree) * When I want to run a locally stored version of cygwin instead of the one that I installed to my network share drive that is automounted onto any computer I log on to because either 1) the share is absent / having technical issues, or 2) I need the additional speed granted by running locally, for instance when I am VPN'ing in to work over dial-up If there are any ideas on how to make that work, I'd love to know how (perhaps by keeping the two repositories in synch somehow?) -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
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