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Re: Eliminating usr/i686-pc-cygwin
- To: cygwin-developers at sourceware dot cygnus dot com
- Subject: Re: Eliminating usr/i686-pc-cygwin
- From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna at vinschen dot de>
- Date: Wed, 07 Jun 2000 11:09:11 +0200
- Organization: Cygnus Solutions, a Red Hat company
- References: <20000606223406.A3865@cygnus.com>
- Reply-To: cygdev <cygwin-developers at sourceware dot cygnus dot com>
Chris Faylor wrote:
> I've been perfecting my "mknetrel" script to the point where it is now
> easy to eliminate the i686-pc-cygwin directory.
> [...]
> I can think of a few ways to do this.
>
> 1) Setup.exe can issue a warning if it sees this directory, and do nothing.
> 2) Setup.exe can issue a warning, and move the directory out of the way.
> 3) Setup.exe can issue a warning, and remove the directory.
> 4) Setup.exe can do 2) or 3) and do a: 'ln -s usr i686-pc-cygwin'.
>
> I'm probably partial to 2.
>
> This will probably cause some pain in the short run but I think it is
> worth it to make things look more like a normal UNIX system.
>
> Thoughts?
I would rather see solution 3.
Corinna