Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sources.redhat.com From: "Gerrit P. Haase" Organization: Esse keine toten Tiere To: cygwin@cygwin.com Date: Mon, 1 Jan 2001 22:42:23 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: Re: why not use root as root? Reply-to: gerrit.haase@t-online.de Message-ID: <3A5107CF.875.19B83E91@localhost> In-reply-to: <20010101142014.A6676@redhat.com> References: <3A500F6C.31974.15EDFBC2@localhost>; from gerrit.haase@t-online.de on Mon, Jan 01, 2001 at 05:02:36AM +0100 X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v3.12cDE) <1 Jan 2001, 14:20 Uhr wars, als Christopher Faylor folgendes schrub:> < Re: why not use root as root? > > On Mon, Jan 01, 2001 at 05:02:36AM +0100, Gerrit P. Haase wrote: > >-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > >Hash: SHA1 > > > >Hi cygwinners, > > > >I found this entry in the faq: > > > >http://cygwin.com/faq/faq_4.html#SEC52 > > > >So there is no explanation, what is the problem with that issue. > >I only read, that it is not recommended, but why? > > > >'It is strongly recommended not to make the Cygwin root directory > >the same as your drive's root directory, unless you know what you > >are doing and are prepared to deal with the consequences. ' > > > >What are the consequences? > > The consequences are discussed in the three sentences after the ones > that you quoted. Please read the rest of the entry. > :It is generally easier to maintain the Cygwin hierarchy if it is isolated from, :say, C:\. For one thing, you avoid possible collisions with other (non-cygwin) :applications that may create (for example) \bin and \lib directories. :(Maybe you have nothing like that installed now, but who knows about things you :might add in the future?) 'Generally...', and in special? 'For one thing...', and the second one? '...but who knows...', I know...! -- =^..^= Gerrit Peter Haase ID: 0x28A05137 FP: 875C 745E 01CF 8A34 2767 BE39 305E 5261 28A0 5137 -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Check out: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple