Quoting "Larry Hall (Cygwin)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > David Balazic wrote: > > 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" ? > > > Who said it was random? Nobody. I used quotes.
> If you'd like to suggest > an alternative to the current default, send along a patch and I'm sure > Brian will consider it. I don't think changing from CWD to $TEMP/something (%TEMP%/something actually) is so complicated that an outsider should download sources and create patch. Regards, 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/
