X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2008 09:34:04 -0400 From: NightStrike To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: FAQ suggestion In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <20080318232317.GA22446@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> <47E05D4D.8000000@byu.net> <20080319040517.GD22446@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: 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 On 3/19/08, Dan Kegel wrote: > Don't assume that everyone who asks the question > is trying to cheat or bend the rules; I'm a pretty fierce It is true -- not everyone who wants multiple cygwins installed is a software packager trying to profit off of cygwin. I have found it beneficial to create these multiple installations many times, though it of course didn't work. For instance, these two scenarios happened to me recently: * When I want to test installing something myself for which there is no cygwin package supplied, and I don't want to break anything (nor am I able to backup the current cygwin root tree) * When I want to run a locally stored version of cygwin instead of the one that I installed to my network share drive that is automounted onto any computer I log on to because either 1) the share is absent / having technical issues, or 2) I need the additional speed granted by running locally, for instance when I am VPN'ing in to work over dial-up If there are any ideas on how to make that work, I'd love to know how (perhaps by keeping the two repositories in synch somehow?) -- 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/