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Andrew DeFaria wrote:
> Tim Prince wrote:
>> Generally speaking, putting cygwin stuff in your Windows environment 
>> should be avoided.
> I do that all the time. In fact I wouldn't live without it. There's no 
> problems with doing this.

Problems can arise, and when they do, they are particularly hard to 
debug. It happened to me when trying to install gAim; it tried to load 
the cygwin versions of DLLs with the same names as it was looking for, 
and crashed on startup. I think it is safest to keep cygwin out of your 
Windows PATH.

-Lewis


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