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Subject: Re: cygwin PATH reorg? 
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 19 Nov 1999 12:20:47 PST."
             <19991119122047 DOT B32163 AT cygnus DOT com> 
Date: Fri, 19 Nov 1999 16:47:15 -0600
From: Mumit Khan <khan AT nanotech DOT wisc DOT edu>

Geoffrey Noer <noer AT cygnus DOT com> writes:
> 
> This doesn't sound like a good idea to me.  Somewhat hidden cleverness
> is really dangerous.  Could better documentation possibly accomplish
> the same goals?  Dunno, but I would think that would be preferable.
> 

I'm not sure what you mean adding /bin to the PATH automagically. I,
as a user, don't care as long as my PATH does not change after the
shell evaluates my startup files (.profile, etc). If you can add /bin
as the first element to the PATH variable before it gets to my startup
file, it sounds like a good idea.

I'm in favor of the Unix'y login approach -- setup a default bare 
environment, and then let the actual user startup take care of the 
rest. This bare environment setup process can put /bin, however it is 
found, before the rest of the User's existing PATH (done via Windows/DOS);
then .bashrc/.profile does the rest.

I'd think /bin should be easy to find. Have the installer add a registry 
entry that says where it was installed (it's already there in a way), and 
use that to find /bin.

Regards,
Mumit