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Date: Tue, 04 Nov 2014 10:24:36 -0600
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On 2014-11-04 09:19, cyg Simple wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 4, 2014 at 9:47 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>> Nope.  The problem you're encountering is homemade.  /usr/share is a
>> normal directory just like /usr.  There's no reason at all to mount
>> anything there.  If your installation doesn't have /usr/share, your
>> installation is clearly broken and given that you didn't use setup
>> to install it, it's really just a case of PEBCAK.
>
> I wasn't asking for help; I have a working install.  I was stating the
> possibility of making Cygwin better.  Too bad that one cannot simply
> extract the archives and must depend on the blind use of setup.exe.

"Blind use"?  Cygwin setup is, like the rest of Cygwin, open source:

https://sourceware.org/cygwin-apps/setup.html


Yaakov


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