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Date: Sun, 09 Mar 2003 21:22:32 -0500
From: "Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc.)" <lhall AT rfk DOT com>
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To: "linda w (cyg)" <cygwin AT tlinx DOT org>, cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: Can someone explain the 'obvious' to me...or is it a Grimm's
 Bro. tale...?
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linda w (cyg) wrote:
> I really _think_ (maybe I don't know what I want), but I think I
> want to setup my cygroot -> c:\.
> 
> Now I know this isn't recommended, but why/whynot?  The
> only reason I heard, which sounded a bit weak, was, "Well what if
> some new program comes in and creates a /usr, /var, /tmp...etc
> TLD?  Then it might stomp on Cygwin files.  Is that the only reason
> because some program may someday write into those directories and
> may write files with the same names into those directories?
> 
> The thing is...I think it'd be a bit cool to see some better
> merging of the Win/cyg env.  Like setting %Program Files% =>
> /usr/local/bin?  or /opt?, Setting Documents&Settings ->home,
> etc.
> 
> At the very least, I'd have less to worry about with which set of
> programs I'm using -- with the path's relative to root being the
> same (now whether or not individual tools handle both / and \ is
> another matter, but at least \ would equal /, for the most part.
> 
> Of course, I would expect that "Find C:\" would return nothing
> if I did that, but find / would return my entire fs and not just
> the cygwin subtree....
> 
> Comments on my lunacy/flights of fancy? :-)

It's not recommended mostly for the reasons you give and possible
collisions with similar software from different sources.  There's
no reason you cannot do as you suggest.  It just means you need to
take more care about not installing something that would also want
to use these directories.  Also, you might get a little more flack
when emailing the list with a question that's configuration related. ;-)
FWIW, I run all my Cygwin installations from the root of the drive.
Always have.  But I like to be different|trouble|non-conformant. ;-)




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