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From: Achim Gratz <Stromeko@nexgo.de>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: terminfo and /usr/share/terminfo requirement
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Date: Tue, 04 Nov 2014 18:14:33 +0100
In-Reply-To: <CABa6CEmx0dx5kfYt9wjHiNkJAZKHwNghc_mCEXYvcjrTayq_Jg@mail.gmail.com>	(cyg Simple's message of "Tue, 4 Nov 2014 10:19:13 -0500")
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cyg Simple writes:
> I wasn't asking for help; I have a working install.  I was stating the
> possibility of making Cygwin better.

You haven't made an argument in which way having /usr/share be a mount
point would be an improvement over the current situation where it is
simply a directory.

> Too bad that one cannot simply
> extract the archives and must depend on the blind use of setup.exe.

You can look at the source code for setup to learn exactly how it is
working.

I manually extract package archives all the time to install packages
from the build environment into a separate test installation.  The only
two mounts you need to provide are

$PREFIX/bin => $PREFIX/usr/bin
$PREFIX/lib => $PREFIX/usr/lib

just like setup.exe does.  You still cannot simply extract the archives
since you also need to take care about preremove and postinstall scripts
plus the housekeeping in $PREFIX/etc/setup/. BTW, as Andrew already said,
there is no /share in any of the packages, only /usr/share.  If you want
to do something else than setup.exe, you'd need to create your own
packages anyway.


Regards,
Achim.
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