X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <1183832613.468fda25eaef6@webmail.volja.net> Date: Sat, 07 Jul 2007 20:23:33 +0200 From: David Balazic To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Setup offers bad directory for Local Package Directory References: <1183805105.468f6eb1e2a23@webmail.volja.net> <468F75A7.79582C26@dessent.net> <1183823939.468fb84379ca6@webmail.volja.net> <468FBC10.7090202@cygwin.com> In-Reply-To: <468FBC10.7090202@cygwin.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit User-Agent: Internet Messaging Program (IMP) 3.2.5 / FreeBSD-5.2.1 X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Id: 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 Quoting "Larry Hall (Cygwin)" : > David Balazic wrote: > > Quoting Brian Dessent : > > > >> David Balazic wrote: > >> > >>> I downloaded http://www.cygwin.com/setup.exe > >>> version 2.573.2.2 (as displayed in the first page of the wizard). > >>> > >>> I entered "C:\Program Files\cygwin" ad the root directory. > >>> Then on the next page "Select Local Package Directory" the offered > >>> directory was "C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox", which is clearly wrong. > >> It's not clearly wrong at all, in fact setup.exe had no involvement > >> whatsoever with choosing this value -- it is simply whatever the current > >> working directory was when you ran it. The fact that it's Mozilla's > >> directory implies that you ran setup.exe from within the browser. If > >> you had saved it to a folder and then clicked on it in Explorer, then > >> that folder would have been the CWD and that is what setup would have > >> offered. The first time you run it setup has no idea where you want to > >> store downloaded files, so it uses the CWD for lack of a better guess. > >> Thereafter the choice is stored in /etc/setup/last-cache and so after > >> the first time the choice will persist. > >> > >> Brian > > > > Wouldn't $TEMP/cygwinfiles be a better default than "random" ? > > > Who said it was random? Nobody. I used quotes. > If you'd like to suggest > an alternative to the current default, send along a patch and I'm sure > Brian will consider it. I don't think changing from CWD to $TEMP/something (%TEMP%/something actually) is so complicated that an outsider should download sources and create patch. Regards, David -- 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/