Quoting Brian Dessent <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > David Balazic wrote: > > > I downloaded http://www.cygwin.com/setup.exe > > version 2.573.2.2 (as displayed in the first page of the wizard). > > > > I entered "C:\Program Files\cygwin" ad the root directory. > > Then on the next page "Select Local Package Directory" the offered > > directory was "C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox", which is clearly wrong. > > It's not clearly wrong at all, in fact setup.exe had no involvement > whatsoever with choosing this value -- it is simply whatever the current > working directory was when you ran it. The fact that it's Mozilla's > directory implies that you ran setup.exe from within the browser. If > you had saved it to a folder and then clicked on it in Explorer, then > that folder would have been the CWD and that is what setup would have > offered. The first time you run it setup has no idea where you want to > store downloaded files, so it uses the CWD for lack of a better guess. > Thereafter the choice is stored in /etc/setup/last-cache and so after > the first time the choice will persist. > > Brian
Wouldn't $TEMP/cygwinfiles be a better default than "random" ? David -- 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/
