Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: RE: New setup uploaded - 2.218.2.8 Date: Thu, 16 May 2002 09:05:23 +1000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Message-ID: X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.0.5762.3 content-class: urn:content-classes:message X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: From: "Robert Collins" To: "Harig, Mark A." Cc: Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by delorie.com id g4FN69t07635 > -----Original Message----- > From: Harig, Mark A. [mailto:maharig@idirect.net] > Sent: Thursday, May 16, 2002 12:42 AM > Should this behavior of setup.exe's searching the directory > tree below the '/' mount point be documented, or should it be changed? Setup would only look under '/' if you chose the dos location of '/' as your 'local package directory. If it's not clear that doing that is a 'bad thing', then we need to change that screen to make it obvious. Cygwin setup wants a directory all to itself to use as it's package cache. Rob -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/