Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Reply-To: Cygwin List Message-Id: <6.0.1.1.0.20040220132713.0391c768@127.0.0.1> X-Sender: Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2004 13:30:29 -0500 To: Thomas L Roche , cygwin@cygwin.com From: Larry Hall Subject: Re: when to rebase? In-Reply-To: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" At 01:23 PM 2/20/2004, Thomas L Roche you wrote: >Christopher Faylor Fri, 20 Feb 2004 10:41:45 -0500 ----- >> I run rebaseall on all of my systems. > >When? After every install? Periodically? Only on weirdness? > >Is this just CYA, or is it UG- or FAQ-worthy? (Note that searching >either's big-HTML versions for 'rebas' fails.) It should never hurt to 'rebase' so you could do it after every install. Rebasing will eventually become automatic, done by setup. Some discussion of 'rebase' could be added to the User's Guide though IMO. -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 838 Washington Street (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 -- 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/