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Date: Wed, 31 Jul 2013 18:28:16 -0600
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On 7/31/2013 17:54, Linda Walsh wrote:
> Warren Young wrote:
>>
>> Just to emphasize: if both 32- and 64-bit Cygwin bin dirs are in your
>> PATH at the same time, you will get complaints in the terminal window
> ------
>      Ok, but would it be desirable (or wouldn't it be)
> to have only 1 /etc, /var, /home? dir,

Sure.  But what's stopping you from doing that today?  Symlinks work 
just fine across the /cygdrive boundary separating your Cygwins.

I keep very little in /home, mainly just dot files and symlinks into 
/cygdrive/c/Users/mylogin.  The actual data I keep under c:\Users.  That 
is, ~mylogin/Documents is a symlink to My Documents, etc.  Similar for 
Pictures, Downloads, AppData, ...

I have a bunch of scripts I've written in ~/bin, but those get checked 
into a local Subversion repository, so I can keep those updated across 
Cygwins easily enough.  Ditto with compiled programs I've written: just 
check out and rebuild on the other Cygwin when they change.

> then maybe in your bashrc have
> it do a cygmount or create a softlinke from /bin32 -> /bin or /bin64->/bin
> (and same for lib)?

You can't just merge the two bin/lib dirs.  The executable names 
conflict.  My solution involving a "cygwin2.dll" is the only solution I 
see.  And again, it's packed with potential pain.

>      I don't think it will turn out well to try to have people
> maintain 2 sets of configuration files...

People have been inventing new ways to keep /etc synchronized for 
decades.  Most relevant to Cygwin today are symlinks, etckeeper, 
Puppet/Chef/Cfengine, YourFavoriteVCS...

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