X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2008 13:00:10 -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, Andrew Schulman wrote: > > * 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. What is stow? -- 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/