On Thu, Dec 16, 2004 at 11:15:05AM -0500, Brian Keener wrote: > George wrote: > > Internet Option'. Files were saved to the root of a currently empty > > D:/ partition. > > > > Ordinarily I'd just delete the 'c:/cygwin/etc/setup' dirs and files > > as they seem to contain summmary download-specific information, but > > I'm wondering why this folder was created where it was. Maybe if I > > had selected 'Install from Internet' and picked 'c:/cygwin' (on this > > machine) for the installation directory (neither of which is the > > case), it might make more sense. > > Since you selected Download only then setup bypassed the question for > the Root Directory for the install but defaulted to C:\cygwin and as > you point out the C:\cygwin\etc\setup directory has summary download > and log information for the install. It would normally place it > whereever you installed Cygwin but since this was a download only - it > had to assume where that might be. I remember seeing this before and > wondered where else we might place these setup files when it is a > download only - at one time I beleive these were actually kept as part > of the download directory and then later moved to /etc/setup but I am > not 100% on that. > Thanks for the comments, Brian. What you say makes perfect sense, though my own opinion is that a 'download only' should be self-contained to avoid putting a user in a position where he's left wondering why there's a a mostly empty 'c:/cygwin' folder when he's installed it in, say, 'd:/cygwin'.
Either way, no big deal. I'll go ahead and delete the dirs/files. -- George -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
