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Re: vmstat
- From: "Chris January" <chris at atomice dot net>
- To: "Charles Wilson" <cwilson at ece dot gatech dot edu>
- Cc: <cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Thu, 27 Jun 2002 19:49:09 +0100
- Subject: Re: vmstat
- References: <OF9302AC86.0EB950DE-ON85256BE4.005579C2@isn.instinet.com> <00b901c21df9$1c9e3df0$0100a8c0@advent02> <20020627163750.GA27819@redhat.com> <010901c21dfa$de6d74e0$0100a8c0@advent02> <3D1B5A59.7090609@ece.gatech.edu>
> > If it overwrites it, then I have packaged it wrongly. It should put
ps.exe
> > and kill.exe into separate subdirectories, i.e. /bin/procps/ps.exe and
> > /usr/bin/procps/kill.exe.
>
>
> PLEASE do not differentiate between /bin and /usr/bin. This caused no
> end of trouble during the early days of setup.exe when setup didn't
> *always* follow the mounts. Granted, setup is much better about that
> sort of thing now, but don't tempt fate.
>
> There's no need for separate /bin and /usr/bin on cygwin.
>
> (I don't care about the procps/ subdirectory, but I doubt others will be
> very happy about it. cf. netpbm packagin discussion on cygwin-apps)
I've regenned the package without /usr/bin.
As for the procps subdirectory in /bin I was following the precedent set by
ncurses-test-dll.
Chris