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> * 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)

We have /usr/local or /opt for that.  Furthermore you can use stow to easily
install and uninstall test packages.


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