Can someone explain the 'obvious' to me...or is it a Grimm's Bro. tale...?

2003-03-09 Thread linda w \(cyg\)
I really _think_ (maybe I don't know what I want), but I think I want to setup my cygroot - c:\. Now I know this isn't recommended, but why/whynot? The only reason I heard, which sounded a bit weak, was, Well what if some new program comes in and creates a /usr, /var, /tmp...etc TLD? Then it

RE: Can someone explain the 'obvious' to me...or is it a Grimm's Bro. tale...?

2003-03-09 Thread Gary R. Van Sickle
The thing is...I think it'd be a bit cool to see some better merging of the Win/cyg env. Like setting %Program Files% = /usr/local/bin? or /opt?, Setting DocumentsSettings -home, etc. %Program Files% = /usr/local/bin would be a disaster wrapped in a tragedy wrapped in a thin candy shell.

Re: Can someone explain the 'obvious' to me...or is it a Grimm's Bro. tale...?

2003-03-09 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Sun, 9 Mar 2003, linda w (cyg) wrote: I really _think_ (maybe I don't know what I want), but I think I want to setup my cygroot - c:\. Now I know this isn't recommended, but why/whynot? The only reason I heard, which sounded a bit weak, was, Well what if some new program comes in and

RE: Can someone explain the 'obvious' to me...or is it a Grimm's Bro. tale...?

2003-03-09 Thread linda w \(cyg\)
From: Gary R. Van Sickle %Program Files% = /usr/local/bin would be a disaster wrapped in a tragedy wrapped in a thin candy shell. You'd have .exe's from Hell to breakfast in Program Files, which is pretty contrary to normal Windows practice. Well, /opt was my other choice

Re: Can someone explain the 'obvious' to me...or is it a Grimm's Bro. tale...?

2003-03-09 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sun, Mar 09, 2003 at 10:06:41PM -0500, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: It is not advisable to a general newbie, mostly because if (and when) problems do arise (and they are *likely* to, with all the different software out there), people who don't know what they're doing are going to bug the list,

Re: Can someone explain the 'obvious' to me...or is it a Grimm's Bro. tale...?

2003-03-09 Thread Tim Prince
On Sunday 09 March 2003 18:04, linda w \(cyg\) wrote: I really _think_ (maybe I don't know what I want), but I think I want to setup my cygroot - c:\. Now I know this isn't recommended, but why/whynot? The only reason I heard, which sounded a bit weak, was, Well what if some new program