X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=sourceware.org; h=list-id :list-unsubscribe:list-subscribe:list-archive:list-post :list-help:sender:message-id:date:from:mime-version:to:subject :references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; q=dns; s=default; b=yfXHiuaU01Bi8nZMkwmJ38AB2qa3R1bDuwfIgOg7oWb 3CMBZXjB87RFXQaoT1NpseAyqsK4NcnCOW92YZL/2t6fLYcOIvT0QK2HyPjG4mH5 SAeh9q/A9JdQ7pAaL+hZRssRHXS0pcafNYqX2v62FFz3SoNXcOx/DN2dXkrFvT4c = DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed; d=sourceware.org; h=list-id :list-unsubscribe:list-subscribe:list-archive:list-post :list-help:sender:message-id:date:from:mime-version:to:subject :references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; s=default; bh=sDsgTc5f2JxFZ0Kb08EAoKpr7kA=; b=SitgMHee/JEExMGI5 vPVUZ2gHRIEJ+mqlHpzBoZYNipQr17Zvw8aGPpNanR3LYxltaPzjnJ+B2ymBQFBu xS4SMCdDlcrZ92239cpxmr6jNsJWvxUvH6myrMh4YJvlmJhUDnbbLBKXFqNU6wQ/ wfqjD9Fv22cDUUXF9kAj+urKYQ= Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-1.5 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,SPF_HELO_PASS autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 X-HELO: mx1.redhat.com Message-ID: <5458FDC4.7060008@cygwin.com> Date: Tue, 04 Nov 2014 10:24:36 -0600 From: Yaakov Selkowitz User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.6.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: terminfo and /usr/share/terminfo requirement References: <0o355a5qcje49cevq02fb581uahr2jb38r AT 4ax DOT com> <20141031211001 DOT GD14051 AT calimero DOT vinschen DOT de> <54580070 DOT 70908 AT cygwin DOT com> <20141104092948 DOT GK28636 AT calimero DOT vinschen DOT de> <20141104144719 DOT GA28300 AT calimero DOT vinschen DOT de> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes 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 -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple