Re: Setup offers bad directory for Local Package Directory

2007-07-08 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
David Balazic wrote: Quoting "Larry Hall (Cygwin)" : David Balazic wrote: Quoting Brian Dessent : 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.

Re: Setup offers bad directory for Local Package Directory

2007-07-07 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sat, Jul 07, 2007 at 03:10:46PM -0700, Brian Dessent wrote: >David Balazic wrote: >> is so complicated that an outsider should download sources and create patch. > >For better or worse the only hard currency of the FOSS world is the >patch. And the fool's good is "the opinion". cgf -- Unsubsc

Re: Setup offers bad directory for Local Package Directory

2007-07-07 Thread Brian Dessent
David Balazic wrote: > Wouldn't $TEMP/cygwinfiles be a better default than "random" ? It's really just a difference of expectations. Wearing my user hat, I find it reasonable that setup offers the default of CWD for the location to store downloaded files, because my use case is saving setup.exe

Re: Setup offers bad directory for Local Package Directory

2007-07-07 Thread David Balazic
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 enter

Re: Setup offers bad directory for Local Package Directory

2007-07-07 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
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 P

Re: Setup offers bad directory for Local Package Directory

2007-07-07 Thread David Balazic
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 Pack

Re: Setup offers bad directory for Local Package Directory

2007-07-07 Thread Brian Dessent
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 F

Setup offers bad directory for Local Package Directory

2007-07-07 Thread David Balazic
Hi! 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