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Date: Wed, 16 Oct 2013 11:41:00 -0400
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Subject: Re: Installing new cygwin programs, writes over /usr/local/bin link
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Corinna Vinschen wrote at about 13:47:46 +0200 on Wednesday, October 16, 2013:
 > On Oct 15 17:56, ANONYMOUS wrote:
 > > Is there any reason why each time a new cygwin program is
 > > installed/updated, the installer overwrites my /usr/local/bin link?
 > > 
 > > I symlink /usr/local/bin to another location and it gets overwritten
 > > each time.
 > > 
 > > Is there any way to avoid such behavior?
 > 
 > Not for the time being.  Rather than creating a symlink, create a
 > mount point in /etc/fstab or /etc/fstab.d/$USER:
 > 
 >   C:/your/own/local/bin /usr/local/bin xxx binary 0 0
 
Thanks Corinna...
Just a follow-up question.
I have found that the fstab.d mounts don't automount. Is that by
design? Or is there some way to turn on automounting. For now I need
to run mount -a manually (or I guess I could put in my .bash_profile)

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