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:subject:from:to:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; q=dns; s=default; b=iN8 9AlOet3Gm6h2mD3nCg1gyxcaVFRcBJLYKEQVLtktiZge3LI7tkvZpLh/XlLTB2Oa u3AZSipjdX4cky++1Q58naM4mWXtJ7ONQ0b3kV9WbYlHmcTohH1OlE6B/3Tt0dEr BV4mvcbmuMb+hsstza9NgGKJ1lvg9MQ9JaFQjzXM= 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:subject:from:to:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; s=default; bh=2W+BWHv/g TbjsBJeI6l0VE8OP4A=; b=yGO7mC8Yf1cOJzcGAi3GjxI0/TKO1wP2TXESacgNV XUM976GM5icSB+IL9f/nQs5bdK/uUMMY6+igF32/joJOdICKj/D4tSw8vo/PmYi9 Vm4fYAgfrkFz0hny5D6QgabB60O/fJOnoQdfX4NoFiFEFnYskbw6T7ehZkQCTIQY ns= 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=0.5 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_50,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 X-HELO: lb3-smtp-cloud6.xs4all.net Message-ID: <525426f30dea445ca652719287ffdda2.squirrel@webmail.xs4all.nl> Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2014 11:01:06 +0100 Subject: Re: RFC: 1.7.33 problem with user's home directory From: "Houder" To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com User-Agent: SquirrelMail/1.4.18 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit >Marco Atzeri wrote: >>On 11/11/2014 7:40 AM, Andrey Repin wrote: >> >> In short, elusive benefits of having a separate cygwin-specific "clean" homes >> versus confusing disjoint of multiple places to look for single user's files, >> settings, and other stuff when it comes to backups and migrating profiles. >> >This an extremely personal point of view. >For me, I strongly hate mixing my cygwin home with >standard windows one. >I prefer to have separate cygwin home also between 32 and 64 bit > >> WBR, >> Audrey Repin >Regards >Marco Andrey has expressed his opinion on "Cygwin's user home" several times now. And I sincerely hope that it will not become the accepted view for the location of an user's home. Please, please, please, do NOT remove the possibility to maintain (the location of an user's home of) Cygwin as far away from Windows as possible ... (otherwise I will have another reason the stick to the passwd/group files) And my apology to Andrey for failing to maintain the "appropriate threading". Henri -- 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