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From: Peter Ring <PRI AT cddk DOT dk>
To: "'earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com'" <earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com>,
        "'dirk DOT schultheis AT gmx DOT de'" <dirk DOT schultheis AT gmx DOT de>,
        "'cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com'" <cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com>
Subject: RE: setup, default mounts
Date: Fri, 9 Jun 2000 16:32:10 +0200
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Is there a special reason for not just having four real directories,
/bin and /usr/bin, /lib and /usr/lib? Why mount directories at all?

I like the current file hierarchy much better that B20's. Earnie points
out why: many (most?) UNIX utilities and packages interface directly to
the file system, i.e., depend on a certain file system hierarchy, and it
also makes it much easier to maintain and integrate software from
various sources if everybody has more or less the same ideas about where
to put things.

But this little trick that setup.exe does with mounts, is there any
reasons that it must be so? I install by untar'ing the tar balls to the
root of a Windows volume, because I think life is more pleasant if
Windows and Cygwin sees the same file hierachy (except when you actually
want to mount a different Windows volume into the Cygwin file system).

BTW, I regard Cygwin to be one of the things that lighten up my day.
Thanks!!

Kind regards,
Peter Ring


-----Original Message-----
From: Earnie Boyd [mailto:earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com]
Sent: Friday, June 09, 2000 4:11 PM
To: dirk DOT schultheis AT gmx DOT de; cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com
Subject: Re: setup, default mounts


--- dirk DOT schultheis AT gmx DOT de wrote:
> Hi!
> The setup in the release dir allways mount /lib and /bin to /usr/lib/ and
> /usr/bin. Is there a special reason for it ? 
> 

Yes. (1)

> Newbies like me have allways the problems with the confusing virtual
> cygwin filesystem on top of the Windows-Filesystem. 
> 

Does this mean you have no UNIX experience?

(1) Lots of utilities expect /usr/bin and /usr/lib to be available.

Cheers,

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   Earnie Boyd: <mailto:earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com>
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