Mail Archives: cygwin-developers/2000/02/29/18:28:45
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mumit Khan [SMTP:khan AT NanoTech DOT Wisc DOT EDU]
> Sent: Tuesday, February 29, 2000 11:55
> To: Cygwin Developers List
> Subject: FS layout issues for v1.1 (eg., /bin and /usr/bin)
>
> I had recently asked Chris if he would support the idea of making /bin
> and /usr/bin point to the same directory (the `how' comes later), and
> he'd asked me bring this out here for a wider discussion. I'm going
> to expand the discussion a bit to also talk about where the system
> includes and libraries go.
>
> I'm going to leave releases b20.1 and earlier out of the discussion
> since
> the layout is a confusing mess.
>
> In Cygwin v1.0, Cygwin finally moved into a reasonable layout with
> (IMO)
> two exceptions:
>
> 1 it used an "interesting" layout where the binaries go to /bin and
> other things go into /usr. In GNU package terminology, it's equiv
> to specifying ``--prefix=/usr --exec-prefix=/''.
>
> I'd like to see /bin and /usr/bin "point" to the same place in the
> filesystem for the next net release.
>
[Andrew Dalgleish]
I don't.
I have a minimal "/bin" similar to the FHS.
It makes it very easy to set up a new system because this is the only
directory I *have* to copy - everything else is optional.
This could also make the installer easier, a single self-containd
directory which contains everything you need and you know will work on
its own.
(BTW, I mount my home directory from a samba server.
If I make my cygwin session full screen I can barely tell the
difference, which shows how good cygwin is :-)
Regards,
Andrew Dalgleish
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