On Nov 13 14:30, Warren Young wrote: > On Nov 13, 2014, at 2:55 AM, Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cyg...@cygwin.com> > wrote: > > > On Nov 12 11:00, Warren Young wrote: > >> > >> I propose that this or something like it be added to the default > >> fstab. > > > > No. This would even break Setup right now. > > I’m guessing this is because setup.exe doesn’t know what to do with a > redirected /var and /usr/local on the first install, when /etc/fstab > doesn’t exist yet? > > I assume setup.exe does obey /etc/fstab on subsequent installs. If > not, I can see that this will break the installation of any package > that puts files in either location. > > I don’t see that the */tmp changes would bother setup.exe. > > None of these problems seem difficult. Doesn’t setup.exe write the > initial /etc/fstab, and so is in a position to know what it will > contain on first install?
Perhaps, but I don't want to make such changes short-term, and I don't want to enforce such a big change in directory layout. This has to be made configurable in the GUI. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Maintainer cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat
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